v. (wk.)
Gaw pres. pl. kallen, past/pp. called, calde, past pl. calden; Cl pres. pl. calles, past sg. calde; Pat pres. 3 sg. calleʒ, past 1 sg. calde, past 3 sg. calde, called, pp. called; Erk past 3 sg callid; WA infin. call, pres. 1 sg. call, pres. 2 sg. callis, pres. 3 sg. calls, cals, calles, callis, pres. pl. call, callis, callen, past sg. callid, cald, pp. callyd, pp. callid, calid, cald, caled, callyd
‘to call, shout, cry out (intr.), crave, beg; call, name, summon (tr.)’ (Modern English call)
PGmc Ancestor
*kall- or *kalz-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
kalla ‘to call, cry, shout; send for; say; claim; name’
(ONP kalla (vb.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
Far kalla, Icel kalla, Norw kalla, Dan kalde, Sw kalla
OE Cognate
cp. hildecalla (n.) ‘war herald’
Phonological and morphological markers
Summary category
C1a
(C5)
Relatively infrequent in ME before the14c. (not in the AB language except for once in St.Marg), but thereafter common and very widespread.
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Gaw 456, 664, 807, etc.; Pe 173, 182, 273, etc.; Cl 8, 162, 258, etc.; Pat 26, 131, 281, etc.; Erk 16; WA 229, 431, 559, etc.
On Gaw 1421 calle of as a hunting term, see Emerson 1922: 388, Wright 1935: 166. At WA 2138, the A MS has the variant reading <cries all> for D MS <callyd þai>.