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Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-helpan

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1 ge-helpan

p. -healp, -heolp, pl. -hulpon; pp. -holpen; gen. dat. To assist, preserve, to be sufficient; adjuvare, subvenire, suppetere. I. cum gen :-- Ðonne hie mágon ðín gehelpan when they can help thee, Bt. 14, 1; Fox 42, 10. Ðú gehelpest ðysses menniscan cynnes thou shalt help this human race, Blickl. Homl. 9, 8. Ðú mín hæfst geholpen thou hast assisted me, Bt. 41, 4; Fox 250, 18. II. cum dat :-- Him ðá Ioseph gehealp then Joseph helped them, Ors. 1, 5; Bos. 28, 6. Ðæt wíf, ðe eówrum lífe geheolp the woman who preserved your life, Jos. 6, 22. He wolde gehelpan ðearfum he wished to help needy people, Swt. A. S. Rdr. 102, 226.
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᚻᛖᛚᛈᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Bt.
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Fox
Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
Ors.
Orosius, Historiarum (OE translation by Alfred)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
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