"halp" meaning in Middle English

See halp in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Head templates: {{head|enm|verb form}} halp
  1. alternative form of holp (“helped”). Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: holp (extra: helped)
    Sense id: en-halp-enm-verb-1CGydV6z Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries
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          "english": "Thus God helped him.",
          "ref": "1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Monkes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Thus halp him God.",
          "translation": "Thus God helped him.",
          "type": "quotation"
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