英语词汇yclept的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

yclept. Yclept is the only survivor, and a weary one at that, of many words formed with the prefix y in Middle English. Y was simply used to make past participles, and so yclest was blessed, yclad was clothed, etc. Yclept, the last of these irregular English verb forms is just y attached to the old verb clepe, “call” and means “called (so-and-so), named, styled.” It is abundant in the works of many Elizabethan poets and is occasionally still used humorously, when the writer knows he is affecting a literary ar- chaism. John Taylor the Water Poet has a poem on birds yclept “Wheat ears” (1653):

词汇	yclept
词源	yclept. Yclept is the only survivor, and a weary one at that, of many words formed with the prefix y in Middle English. Y was simply used to make past participles, and so yclest was blessed, yclad was clothed, etc. Yclept, the last of these irregular English verb forms is just y attached to the old verb clepe, “call” and means “called (so-and-so), named, styled.” It is abundant in the works of many Elizabethan poets and is occasionally still used humorously, when the writer knows he is affecting a literary ar- chaism. John Taylor the Water Poet has a poem on birds yclept “Wheat ears” (1653): The name of Wheat ears on them is yclep’d Because they come when wheat is yearly reaped.
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