helve

From Middle English helfe, helve; from Old English hielfe, from Proto-Germanic *halbiją.

• IPA^(key): /hɛlv/
• Rhymes: -ɛlv

helve (plural helves)

1. 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 […]

   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 847:

     Happily they were only sketchily armed, the group-leaders carried pistols and pick-helves.

2. A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.

helve (third-person singular simple present helves, present participle helving, simple past and past participle helved)

1. (transitive) To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.

From Proto-Finnic *helbeh, borrowed from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (whence Old High German helwa, helawa), or alternatively a more recent Germanic borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhelʋeˣ/, [ˈhe̞lʋe̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -elʋe
• Syllabification^(key): hel‧ve

helve

1. (botany) lodicule

• “helve”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

From Proto-Finnic *helbeh. Cognates include Finnish helve and Estonian helves.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈhelʋe/, [ˈhe̞lʲʋ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈhelʋe/, [ˈhe̞lʋe̞]
• (Hevaha) IPA^(key): /ˈhelʋeh/, [ˈhe̞lʋe̞h]
• Rhymes: -elʋ, -elʋe
• Hyphenation: hel‧ve

helve

1. lodicule

• Arvo Laanest (1997) Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 35

helve

1. vocative masculine singular of helvus

• hylve, helfe, hilve, halve, alffe, hellfe

From Old English hielfe, from Proto-West Germanic *halbī.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛlv(ə)/, /ˈhilv(ə)/, /hɛlf/

helve

1. helve (grip of an implement)

• English: helve
• Scots: helf

• “helve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-06.