clepe

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  1. transitive verb Archaic To call; name.

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  1. Middle English clepen, from Old English cleopian, to cry out.

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  1. English dial. clip; from Middle English clepen, clepien, cleopien, clupien, clipien, from Anglo-Saxon cleopian, clypian, clipian = Old Northumbrian cliopia, clioppia, call, cry out. Connections unknown.
  2. from clepe, v.
 

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