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)
- (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.
- 1713, The records of the Swedish Lutheran churches at Raccoon and Penns Neck:
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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)
- (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.
- 1876, Virgil, William Morris, Cedric Chivers, The Aeneids of Virgil:
- (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.
- 1985, Friedrich Schiller, Schiller Institute (Washington, D.C.), Friedrich Schiller, poet of freedom:
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