v.
Pe pp. bycalt
'call upon, summon'
(Modern English becall)A native formation from the OE prefix bī- + calle (v.).
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)
ME calle is relatively infrequent before the 14c. (not in the AB language except for once in St.Marg), but thereafter common and very widespread. Bycalle is only cited in MED and OED from a handful of texts, several of which are N/NEM dial.
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Pe 913, 1163