hjälpa
Swedish
/jɛlpːa/
verb-reg
Definitions
- to help; give aid or assistance to
- to help; provide support to
- to relieve; to ease someone's troubles or problems
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish hiælpa inherited from Old Norse hjalpa inherited from Proto-Germanic *helpaną (help) derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelb-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱelb-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- jelpata Finnish
- jelppiä Finnish
- kelpaamaton Finnish
- kelpaava Finnish
- kelpo Finnish
- kelpuuttaa Finnish
- kelvata Finnish
- *ḱelb- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱelp-, *ḱelb- Proto-Indo-European
- hjelpe Norwegian Bokmål
- *helpaną Proto-Germanic
- *helpō Proto-Germanic
- med Swedish
- medhjälpare Swedish
- hjelpa Norwegian Nynorsk
- hjalpa Old Norse
- hjælpe Danish
- hjælper Danish
- hjælpesætning Danish
- hjálpa Icelandic
- *helpan Old High German
- helfan Old High German
- hjálpa Faroese
- 𐌷𐌹𐌻𐍀𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *helpan gmw-pro
- *kelbat'ak Proto-Finnic
- *kelpa- Proto-Finnic
- helpan Old Saxon
- hiælpa Old Swedish
- hjalp Westrobothnian
- helpa Old Frisian
- hölpen Low German