clepen
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
- clepyn, clepe, clupen, clepie, clupie, clupy
- cleopien, clepian, clypian, clepiȝen, clepenn (Early Middle English)
Etymology edit
From Old English cleopian, clipian, from Proto-West Germanic *klipōn, fromProto-Germanic *klipōną.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
clepen (third-person singular simple present clepeth, present participle clepende, first-/third-person singular past indicative clepte, past participle yclept)
- to call out, cry (about something)
- to call out, appeal (to someone or something)
- c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [...] [Troilus and Criseyde], [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book V, [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio ccvi, verso, column 1:
- For that that ſome men blamen euer yet / Lo, other maner folke comenden it / And as for me, for al ſuche variaunce / Felicite clepe I my ſuffyſaunce
- For that that some blame, yet / other kinds of people commend it. / But as for me, with all that variance / I call on felicity for my competence
- to say or respond to (someone)
- to say; to tell; to discuss (something)
- to name, call, designate
- to call to; to summon
- to convoke; to cause to assemble
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of clepen (weak in -te/-ed)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants edit
References edit
- “clēpen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.