clepen – Middle English verb conjugation

Middle English verb forms of clepen

Infinitive

clepen; to clepen; clepe

Participles

Presentclepende; clepynge
Pastyclept; clept; cleped; ycleped

Indicative

Present

1st sing.clepe
2nd sing.clepest
3rd sing.clepeth
1st plur.clepen; clepe; clepeth
2nd plur.clepen; clepe; clepeth
3rd plur.clepen; clepe; clepeth

Past

1st sing.clepte; cleped; clepede
2nd sing.cleptest; clepedest
3rd sing.clepte; cleped; clepede
1st plur.clepten; clepte; clepeden; cleped; clepede
2nd plur.clepten; clepte; clepeden; cleped; clepede
3rd plur.clepten; clepte; clepeden; cleped; clepede

Subjunctive

Present

1st sing.clepe
2nd sing.clepe
3rd sing.clepe

Past

1st sing.clepte; cleped; clepede
2nd sing.clepte; cleped; clepede
3rd sing.clepte; cleped; clepede

Imperative

Singularclepe
Pluralclepeth; clepe

Verbs conjugated like clepen

clepen,

Etymology

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

Verbs referencing "clepen"

English clepe, English clep.

Sample Sentences

  • 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) [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:]

Cognates

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