Where does weepen come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

weepen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Holly and his merry men, they dancen and they sing; Ivy and her maidens, they weepen and they wring."
"Whilst Juliet slept, and whilst the other weepen thus, Our Friar Laurence hath by this sent one to Romeus,"
"And yet for all to make amends for this, The clouds sheed teares and weepen at my misse."

From Middle English wepen, equivalent to weep + -en.

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