Helpmate

The dictionaries suggest that this word is a corruption of help and meet , as we find these words used in Gen. ii, 18, "I will make him a help meet for him," and that the proper word is helpmeet . If, as is po ible, the words in Genesis mean, "I will make him a help, meet [suitable] for him," then neither helpmate nor helpmeet has any rais on d'être .