different between helpe vs helve

English

Noun

helpe

1. Obsolete spelling of help

Verb

helpe (third-person singular simple present helpes, present participle helping, simple past and past participle helped)

1. Obsolete spelling of help

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

helpe

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of helpen

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch helpa, from Proto-Germanic *help?.

Noun

helpe f

1. help, assistance
2. help, helper

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• hulpe

Descendants

• Dutch: hulp
• Limburgish: hölp

Further reading

• “helpe (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “helpe (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian helpa, from Proto-West Germanic *helpan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?lp?/

Verb

helpe

1. to help

Inflection

Related terms

• help

Further reading

• “helpe”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

From Middle English helfe, helve; from Old English helfe, from Proto-Germanic *halbiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?lv/
• Rhymes: -?lv

Noun

helve (plural helves)

1. The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.
   • 1917, Robert Frost, The Ax-helve:

     It was the bad ax-helve someone had sold me— / “Made on machine,” he said, plowing the grain […]

   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     The eyelet in the rose pilleum of his glans welled a clear bead that silled under the corona, wound the veinclomb helve, and ran a snailtrack down the thrum and ridge of the underduct.

   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 847:

     Happily they were only sketchily armed, the group-leaders carried pistols and pick-helves.

2. A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.

Translations

Verb

helve (third-person singular simple present helves, present participle helving, simple past and past participle helved)

1. (transitive) To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.

Finnish

(index he)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *helbeh, borrowed from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (whence Old High German helwa, helawa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hel?e?/, [?he?l?e?(?)]
• Rhymes: -el?e
• Syllabification: hel?ve

Noun

helve

1. (botany) lodicule

Declension

Latin

Adjective

helve

1. vocative masculine singular of helvus

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hylve, helfe, hilve, halve, alffe, hellfe

Etymology

From Old English helfe, from Proto-Germanic *halbiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?lv/, /h?lf/, /hilv/

Noun

helve

1. helve (grip of an implement)

Descendants

• English: helve
• Scots: helf

References

• “helve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-06.