helve
See also: Helve
English
Etymology
From Middle English helfe, helve; from Old English hielfe, from Proto-Germanic *halbiją.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɛlv/
- Rhymes: -ɛlv
Noun
helve (plural helves)
- The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.
- 1917, Robert Frost, The Ax-helve:
- It was the bad ax-helve someone had sold me— / “Made on machine,” he said, plowing the grain […]
- 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
- The eyelet in the rose pilleum of his glans welled a clear bead that silled under the corona, wound the veinclomb helve, and ran a snailtrack down the thrum and ridge of the underduct.
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 847:
- Happily they were only sketchily armed, the group-leaders carried pistols and pick-helves.
- 1917, Robert Frost, The Ax-helve:
- A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.
Translations
The handle or haft of a tool or weapon
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Verb
helve (third-person singular simple present helves, present participle helving, simple past and past participle helved)
- (transitive) To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.
Translations
to furnish with a helve
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Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *helbeh, borrowed from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (whence Old High German helwa, helawa).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhelʋeˣ/, [ˈhe̞lʋe̞(ʔ)]
- Rhymes: -elʋe
- Syllabification(key): hel‧ve
Noun
helve
- (botany) lodicule
Declension
| Inflection of helve (Kotus type 48*E/hame, p-v gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | helve | helpeet | |
| genitive | helpeen | helpeiden helpeitten | |
| partitive | helvettä | helpeitä | |
| illative | helpeeseen | helpeisiin helpeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | helve | helpeet | |
| accusative | nom. | helve | helpeet |
| gen. | helpeen | ||
| genitive | helpeen | helpeiden helpeitten | |
| partitive | helvettä | helpeitä | |
| inessive | helpeessä | helpeissä | |
| elative | helpeestä | helpeistä | |
| illative | helpeeseen | helpeisiin helpeihin | |
| adessive | helpeellä | helpeillä | |
| ablative | helpeeltä | helpeiltä | |
| allative | helpeelle | helpeille | |
| essive | helpeenä | helpeinä | |
| translative | helpeeksi | helpeiksi | |
| instructive | — | helpein | |
| abessive | helpeettä | helpeittä | |
| comitative | — | helpeineen | |
| Possessive forms of helve (type hame) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | helpeeni | helpeemme |
| 2nd person | helpeesi | helpeenne |
| 3rd person | helpeensä | |
Latin
Adjective
helve
- vocative masculine singular of helvus
Middle English
Alternative forms
- hylve, helfe, hilve, halve, alffe, hellfe
Etymology
From Old English helfe, from Proto-Germanic *halbiją.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɛlv(ə)/, /ˈhilv(ə)/, /hɛlf/
Noun
helve
- helve (grip of an implement)
Descendants
- English: helve
- Scots: helf
References
- “helve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-06.