different between salp vs halp

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From French salpe, from Ancient Greek ?????? (sálp?, “porgy”).

Noun

salp (plural salps)

1. Any of the free-swimming tunicates of the order Salpida and its single family Salpidae.
   • 1996, Marty Snyderman, Clay Wiseman, Guide to Marine Life: Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida, page 132,

     Salps are capable of self-propulsion, but for the most part, these translucent, gelatinous-looking animals float in mid-water going wherever the prevailing currents take them. […] At times a number of buds are attached to one another in linked chains commonly called salp chains.

   • 1997, L. P. Madin, Sensory Ecology of Salps (Tunicata, Thaliacea): More Questions than Answers, Petra H. Lenz, Daniel K. Hartline, Jennifer E. Purcell, David L. Macmillan (editors), Zooplankton: Sensory Ecology and Physiology, Gordon and Breach Publishers, page 565,

     Observations of some species suggest that salps form spawning aggregations near the surface in the early morning, and that spawning is synchronized with chain release to maximize fertilization success.

   • 2012, Claus Nielsen, Animal Evolution: Interrelationships of the Living Phyla, Oxford University Press, page 55,

     Lampetia has a rather undifferentiated larval stage (called Gastrodes) that parasitizes salps (Mortensen 1912; Komai 1922).

Synonyms

• salpa

Translations

Anagrams

• ALPs, APLS, APLs, ASPL, Alps, PALS, PALs, PLAs, Pals, Plas, SPLA, alps, laps, pals, slap

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin salpa (“stockfish”), from Ancient Greek ????? (sálp?, “a species of fish”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?lp/
• Hyphenation: salp
• Rhymes: -?lp

Noun

salp f (plural salpen, diminutive salpje n)

1. salp, any member of the class Thaliacea

Derived terms

• salpenketen

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hælp/, /h??lp/

Verb

halp (third-person singular simple present halps, present participle halping, simple past and past participle halped)

1. (nonstandard, humorous) Alternative spelling of help
2. (obsolete) Alternative form of holp (“helped”)

   • Thus halp him God.

Usage notes

• The modern form is generally used only as an imperative ("Halp!"). The other forms are more rare. On the internet often associated with lolcats.
• In Internet slang, the verb may describe action that was intended to be helpful, but in reality is counterproductive or not useful: "Stop halping!"

Anagrams

• Pahl, phal

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German halp, from Old High German halp, from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz (“half”). Cognate with German halb, English half.

Adjective

halp (not comparable)

1. (Sette Comuni) half

Declension

References

• “halp” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Irish

Noun

halp m

1. h-prothesized form of alp

Verb

halp m

1. h-prothesized form of alp

Old Norse

Verb

halp

1. third-person singular past indicative active of hjalpa

Swedish

Verb

halp

1. (archaic) past tense of hjälpa.