call
/kɔl/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.51 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "That person is hurt; call for help!"
- "So they called for Rooms; and he ſhewed them one for Christiana and her Children and Mercy, and another for Mr. Great-heart and the old Gentleman."
- ""Supper's ready," called Dad from the kitchen."
- "If you heare a child crie in the night you must call to the nurſe and bid her ſtil it."
- "For far—oh, very far behind, / So far she cannot call to him, / Comes Tegumai alone to find / The daughter that was all to him!"
- "to call the roll of a military company"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gels-der. Proto-Indo-European *golsos Proto-Germanic *kalzazder. Proto-Germanic *kalzōną Proto-West Germanic *kalʀōn Old English cealliander. Old English *callian Middle English callen English call From Middle English callen, from Old English ċeallian (“to call, shout”) and Old Norse kalla (“to call; shout; refer to as; name”); both from Proto-Germanic *kalzōną (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *golH-so- (“voice, cry”), from *gel(H)- (“to vocalize, call, shout”). Cognates * Scots call, caw, ca (“to call, cry, shout”) * Dutch kallen (“to chat, talk”) * German Low German kallen (“to speak, talk”) * German kallen (“to call”) * Swedish kalla (“to call, refer to, beckon”) * Norwegian kalle (“to call, name”) * Danish kalde (“to call, name”) * Icelandic kalla (“to call, shout, name”) * Welsh galw (“to call, demand”) * Polish głos (“voice”) * Lithuanian gal̃sas (“echo”) * Russian голос (golos, “voice”) * Albanian gjuhë (“language, tongue”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kɔl/
- British English: /kɔːl/
Usage
Inflected Forms
calls (present, singular)
calling (participle, present)
called (participle, past)
called (past)
call'd (archaic, participle)
call'd (archaic, past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
called (first person, past)
callest (archaic, present)
called (past, second person)
calledst (archaic, past)