Clepe Definition

klēp

cleped, clepes, clept, yclept

verb

To call or address (a person)

Webster's New World

To call by name; name.

Webster's New World

(intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To give a call; cry out; appeal.

Wiktionary

(archaic or dialectal) To call to one's self; invite; summon.

Wiktionary

(intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) (often with on) To tell lies about; inform against (someone).

Wiktionary

noun

(Now chiefly dialectal) A cry; an appeal; a call.

With clepes and cries.

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Origin of Clepe

From Middle English clepen, clepien, from Old English cleopian, clipian (“to speak, cry out, call, summon, invoke, cry to, implore”), from Proto-Germanic *klipōną (“to ring, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *gal- (“to sound”). Cognate with Old Frisian klippa, kleppa (“to ring”), Dutch kleppen (“to toll, chatter”), Middle Low German kleppen (“to strike, sound”), Middle Low German kleperen (“to rattle”).

From Wiktionary
Middle English clepen from Old English cleopian to cry out

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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