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# holp

«holp» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **helped** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

helped

### part of speech

verb, past tense of help

### meaning for a pupil

Gave help to someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/holp/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "helped". "Holp" is an old past tense form of "help".

### tests

manual 6; corpora 3 (Torah 0, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «holp» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/holp/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.