clipian

• cleopian, clypian, clypiġan, clepian, cliopian, clippan

From Proto-West Germanic *klipēn, *klapēn, from Proto-Germanic *klipjaną, *klapjaną (“to be noisy, chatter”), possibly related to Proto-Germanic *klapōną, *klappōną (“to make a sound”). Cognate with Old Frisian kleppa, klippa (“to sound”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkli.pi.ɑn/

clipian

1. to make a vocal sound; to call, call out, cry; to address, invoke, appeal
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

     Þū ūs clypast tō ūrunm weġe, and ūs ġelēdest tō þǣre dura and ūs ðā untȳnst,...

     Thou callest us back to our way, and leadest us to the door, and openest to us,...

   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church, 1uoting "Circumdederunt me gemitus"

     Dēaþes ġeōmerunga mē beēodon, and helle sārnyssa mē beēodon, and iċ on mīnre ġedrefednysse Drihten clypode, and hē of his hālgan temple mīne stemne ġehyrde.

     The moaning of death surrounded me, and the pains of hell surrounded me, and in my distress I called out to the Lord, and from his holy temple he heard my voice.

• clæppian
• clipur
• ġecleps

• Middle English: clepen
  • English: clepe, yclept
  • Yola: clepe