Etymology

OE un- + calle; cp. OIcel ókallaðr.

PGmc Ancestor

*kall- or *kalz- 

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

kalla ‘to call, cry, shout; send for; say; claim; name’; cp. ókallaðr (adj.).
(ONP kalla (vb.), ókallaðr (adj.))

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

C1ac

(C5c)

Attestation

MED cites only one other instance in ME, in the northern c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719); but OED’s attestations show that it was widespread by the sixteenth century.

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

WA 832

Bibliography

MED uncallid (ppl.), OED uncalled (adj.), Dance calle, Bj. 214–15, SPS 55, 285, de Vries kalla, Mag. kalla (1), Bj-L. kalle, Orel *kalzōjanan, Kroonen *kalzōjan-, AEW calla; ceallian, DOE ceallian