behelp

== English == === Etymology === From be- +‎ help. Cognate with Scots behelpe (“to assist”), West Frisian beholpje, Dutch behelpen (“to make do”), German behelfen (“to manage”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bɪˈhɛlp/ Rhymes: -ɛlp === Verb === behelp (third-person singular simple present behelps, present participle behelping, simple past behelped or (archaic, dialectal) beholp, past participle behelped or (archaic, dialectal) beholp or (archaic, dialectal) beholpen) (transitive, archaic) To help (with); give aid or assistance to. 1713, The records of the Swedish Lutheran churches at Raccoon and Penns Neck: But we live in a good hope of better times and then, hopefully, will this dessign be excuted; Meanwhile I must behelp myself with this boock, so, as I have found it, and so as it is.