How do you pronounce behelp?

The recorded pronunciation is /bɪˈhɛlp/.

behelp

/bɪˈhɛlp/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: be-help
IPA: /bɪˈhɛlp/

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Meaning

verb

To help (with); give aid or assistance to.

Archaic; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"But we live in a good hope of better times and then, hopefully, will this dessign be excuted; Meanwhile I must behelp myself with this boock, so, as I have found it, and so as it is."
"It is said of one of them that at an audience with the Queen of England he was asked whether he was married and, his knowledge of the English language being defective, replied: "No, Your Majesty, behelp me so!"
"Filthiness is in their skirts (Lamentations I) and woe behelp them at the second coming. Alleluia."

Etymology

From be- + help. Cognate with Scots behelpe (“to assist”), West Frisian beholpje, Dutch behelpen (“to make do”), German behelfen (“to manage”).

Word Breakdown

Prefix: be

Usage

Inflected Forms

behelps (present, singular) behelping (participle, present) behelped (past) beholp (archaic, dialectal) behelped (participle, past) beholpen (archaic, dialectal)

Rhymes With

help welp yelp kelp whelp ayelp swelp