a word delineated from Reading Chaucer:
means to “name”.
I am confused, however, if that is the past tense????
- if so what is the present tense. I am eclept Luke.
What are you eclept?
It’s an odd word, but blame saparris, he found it, and we were tired of a couple threads.
Don’t know why he has not picked up on it. Mrs. Saparris probably eclept him for a honey-do Monday.
clepe
–verb (used with object), cleped or clept (also y⋅cleped or y⋅clept ), clep⋅ing. Archaic.
to call; name (now chiefly in the pp. as ycleped or yclept).
If I didn’t use the y earlier, I meant to. A thousand pardons. I studied Chaucer a long, long time ago.
You studied lots of things a long time ago.
So
I clepe today
I clept yesterday
I yclept a hundred times?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Makes not a bit of sense.
the yclept does not fit in with the I clepe, I cleped. Weird. But then Chaucer was born in S.Caroliner.
The y- prefix was often used in past participles in medieval English. It is sometimes found in old hymns, e.g. “Adam lay ybounden”, “A little boy there was yborn”. It is related to the German past participle prefix ge-.
Makes not a bit of sense.
the yclept does not fit in with the I clepe, I cleped. Weird. But then Chaucer was born in S.Caroliner.
The y- prefix was often used in past participles in medieval English. It is sometimes found in old hymns, e.g. “Adam lay ybounden”, “A little boy there was yborn”. It is related to the German past participle prefix ge-.
that is something I did not know. thanks. Fascinating. Out here in middle America there is not too much classical English like you experience.
(yborn - very interesting) I presume there are other examples of it.
