Present participle of clepe; the act of calling or naming (archaic).
Formed by adding the -ing gerund/participle suffix to clepe, a construction that remained productive even as the base verb became obsolete.
The '-ing' suffix is one of the most durable parts of English—it worked 600 years ago, works now, and will probably work 600 years in the future.
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