clepen
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English cleopian, clipian, from Proto-Germanic *klipōną.
Verb
clepen (third-person singular simple present clepeth, present participle clepende, simple past and past participle cleped)
- to call out, cry
- 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 863541017; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book V, [London]: Printed by [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868, 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
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Conjugation
Conjugation of clepen (weak)
| infinitive | (to) clepen | |
|---|---|---|
| indicative | present | past |
| 1st person singular | clepe | clepede |
| 2nd person singular | clepest | clepedest |
| 3rd person singular | clepeth, clepeþ | clepede |
| plural | clepen | clepeden |
| subjunctive | present | past |
| singular | clepe | clepede |
| plural | clepen | clepeden |
| imperative | present | |
| singular | clepe | |
| plural | clepeth, clepeþ | |
| participle | present | past |
| clepende, clepinge | cleped, ycleped | |
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