bycalle

v.

Pe pp. bycalt
 

'call upon, summon'

(Modern English becall)

Etymology

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)

Attestation

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
 

Bibliography

MED bicallen (v.) , OED becall (v.) , HTOED , HTOED , de Vries kalla, Mag. kalla (1), Bj-L. kalle, Orel *kalzōjanan, Kroonen *kalzōjan-, AEW calla; ceallian, DOE ceallian