An archaic or dialectal past tense of 'clepe'; to call or name something.
Old English form related to clepe, from Germanic roots meaning 'to call' or 'to summon.' This represents an older conjugation pattern that has largely disappeared from modern English.
This word is a time capsule—it shows how English verbs used to work with completely different patterns before they standardized, like a linguistic fossil.
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