different between behelp vs behelm

behelp

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b??h?lp/
  • Rhymes: -?lp

Verb

behelp (third-person singular simple present behelps, present participle behelping, simple past behelped or (archaic, dialectal) beholp, past participle behelped or (archaic, dialectal) beholpen)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To help (with); give aid or assistance to.
    • 1713, The records of the Swedish Lutheran churches at Raccoon and Penns Neck:
      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.

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behelm

English

Etymology

From Middle English *behelmen, from Old English behelmian (to cover over), equivalent to be- +? helm. Related to Old English helan (to cover). More at hele.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -?lm

Verb

behelm (third-person singular simple present behelms, present participle behelming, simple past and past participle behelmed)

  1. (transitive) To cover; cover over.
    • 1876, Virgil, William Morris, Cedric Chivers, The Aeneids of Virgil:
      And hundred-folded Briareus, and Lerna's Worm of dread Fell hissing; and Chimaera's length and fire-behelmed head, [...]
    • 1895, Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, The Saga library:
      He went to the Thing in gold-reddened helm, and all his company was behelmed.
  2. (transitive) To cover as with a helm or helmet.
    • 1985, Friedrich Schiller, Schiller Institute (Washington, D.C.), Friedrich Schiller, poet of freedom:
      Stepped forth a virgin, with behelmed head Like to a martial goddess, fair at once And dreadful to behold; [...]
    • 1998, Margaret Bent, Andrew Wathey, Fauvel studies:
      Now come the days for fighting to the finish, bemail thy body and behelm thy head; Rally all those that desert thee, and put away forests and dice.

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