Feminine
Hilfe
Sentences
Meaning
- (feminine, uncountable, usually) help, aid
- (countable, feminine) help, aid
Concepts
Synonyms
Translations
Frequency
Dialects
Basel-Landschaft
hilff
Zürich
hilfe
Zürich
hilf
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈhɪlfə/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle High German helfe, hilfe, from Old High German helfa, hilfa, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *helpō, *hilpiz (“help”), from Proto-Germanic *helpaną (“to help”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelb-, *ḱelp- (“to help”). Among the three Middle High German variants helfe, hilfe, hülfe, the i-form is phonetically intermediate, but in Modern German the northern Hülfe was long predominant. Hilfe was supported, however, by the parallelism with du hilfst, er hilft, and was declared the exclusive standard during the spelling reforms of the early 20th century.
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