Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A cry; an appeal; a call.
To give a call; cry out; appeal. · To call; call upon; cry out to. · To call to oneself; invite; summon. · To call; call by the name of; name.
From Middle English clepen, clepien, from Old English cleopian, clipian (“to speak, cry out, call, summon, invoke, cry to, implore”), from Proto-Germanic *klipōną (“to ring, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *gal- (“to sound”). Cognate with Old Frisian klippa, kleppa (“to ring”), Dutch kleppen (“to toll, chatter”), Middle Low German kleppen (“to strike, sound”), Middle Low German kleperen (“to rattle”).
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