clepen

• clepyn, clepe, clupen, clepie, clupie, clupy
• cleopien, clepian, clypian, clepiȝen, clepenn (Early Middle English)

From Old English cleopian, clipian, from Proto-West Germanic *klipōn, fromProto-Germanic *klipōną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɛːpən/, /ˈklæːpən/
• (dialectal) IPA^(key): /ˈkleːpən/, /ˈklɛpən/, /ˈklipən/

clepen (third-person singular simple present clepeth, present participle clepende, first-/third-person singular past indicative clepte, past participle yclept)

1. to call out, cry (about something)
2. 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] (in Middle English), [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

3. to say or respond to (someone)
4. to say; to tell; to discuss (something)
5. to name, call, designate
6. to call to; to summon
7. to convoke; to cause to assemble

• English: clepe
• Yola: clepe

• “clēpen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.