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Hilfe.

help, aid

5 characters2 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈhɪlfə/

  1. help, aid the act of helping, assistance

    feminine · uncountable · usually
    Erste Hilfe

  2. help, aid a thing or person that helps

    countable · feminine
    Schwimmhilfe
    Haushaltshilfe
Where this word comes from

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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