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English

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Woman making a telephone call (1964).
Call of theosprey (bird).

Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishcallen, fromOld Englishċeallian(“to call, shout”) andOld Norsekalla(“to call; shout; refer to as; name”); both fromProto-Germanic*kalzōną(“to call, shout”), fromProto-Indo-European*golH-so-(“voice, cry”), from*gel(H)-(“to vocalize, call, shout”).

Cognates

Pronunciation

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Verb

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call (third-person singular simple presentcalls,present participlecalling,simple past and past participlecalledor(archaic)call'd)

  1. (heading) Toreach out with one'svoice.
    1. (intransitive) Torequest,summon, orbeckon.
      That person is hurt;call for help!
    2. (intransitive) Tocry orshout.
      Synonyms:holler,yell;see alsoThesaurus:shout
      "Supper's ready,"called Dad from the kitchen.
    3. (transitive) Toutter in aloud ordistinct voice.
      tocall the roll of a military company
      • 1714,J[ohn] Gay, “Saturday; or, The Flights”, inThe Shepherd’s Week. In Six Pastorals, London: […] R. Burleigh […],→OCLC,page56, lines47–50:
        Not ballad-ſinger plac'd above the croud, / Sings with a note ſo ſhrilling ſweet and loud, / Nor pariſh clerk whocalls the pſalm ſo clear, / Like Bowzybeus ſooths th' attentive ear.
    5. (ambitransitive) Tocontact bytelephone.
      Synonyms:drop a line,ring,get on the horn,give someone a ring,give someone a bell;see alsoThesaurus:telephone
      Why don’t youcall me in the morning?
      Why don’t youcall tomorrow?
      • 1913,Edgar Rice Burroughs,The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published1963, page41:
        There they waited until after eleven, then Paulvitch took down the receiver of their telephone. Hecalled a number.
    6. (transitive) Torouse fromsleep; toawaken.
      Synonyms:wake up;see alsoThesaurus:awaken
    7. (transitive, jazz) Torequest that one'sbandplay (a particulartune).
      • 1997,Saxophone Journal:
        TheycalledI Got Rhythm, and turned to me again for a solo, and I said what?
      • 2002, Ken Vail,Duke's Diary:
        Jeff Castleman and Rufus Jones were in position when they went out, and he immediatelycalled Satin Doll.
      • 2015, Clyde E. B. Bernhardt,I Remember: Eighty Years of Black Entertainment, Big Bands, and the Blues, University of Pennsylvania Press,→ISBN, page98:
        I thought he forgot all about it, but late in the set hecalledSt. Louis Blues.
    8. (Yorkshire, transitive) Toscold.
      • 1865, William Stott Banks,Wakefield Words, page11:
        CALL 1 scold
  2. (heading, intransitive) Tovisit.
    1. Topay a (social)visit(often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used bysalespeople with "again" toinvitecustomers to come again).
      We could alwayscall on a friend.
      The engineercalled round whilst you were away.
    2. Tostop at astation orport.
      This traincalls at Reading, Slough and London Paddington.
      Our cruise shipcalled at Bristol Harbour.
    3. Tocome to pass; toafflict.
  3. (heading) Toname,identify, ordescribe.
    1. (ditransitive) Toname or refer to.
      Synonyms:designate,dub,name;see alsoThesaurus:denominate
      Why don’t we dispense with the formalities? Pleasecall me Al.
      Don'tcall me a liar.
      • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
        I don't know how you and the 'head,' as youcall him, will get on, but I do know that if youcall my duds a 'livery' again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togscalled a livery.
      • 1920,Mary Roberts Rinehart,Avery Hopwood, “The Shadow of the Bat”, inThe Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book;241), New York, N.Y.:Dell Publishing Company,→OCLC,page 6:
        The Bat—theycalled him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
      • 2013 June 28,Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 3, page21:
        But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three–what therapistscall "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
    2. (passive voice) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
      I’mcalled John.
      A very tall building iscalled a skyscraper.
      • 2013 September-October,Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, inAmerican Scientist:
        The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment wascalled a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
    3. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
      Theycall the distance ten miles.
      That’s enough work. Let'scall it a day and go home.
      • 1842,Henry Brougham,Political Philosophy:
        The whole army iscalled 700,000 men
    4. (transitive) Toclaim theexistence of somemalfeasance; todenounce as.
      Icall bullshit.
      Shecalled foul on their scheme.
      • 2008,PC Magazine‎[1]:
        Having been around the block a few times, I immediatelycalled "shenanigans” on it, but even so, I was taken aback.
    5. (obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.
  4. (heading) Todeclare, or declarein favor of, apredicted oractualresult.
    1. (transitive) Todeclarein advance.
      The captainscall the coin toss.
    2. (transitive) Topredict.
      Synonyms:augur,foretell;see alsoThesaurus:predict
      Hecalled twelve of the last three recessions.
    3. (transitive) To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
      • 1997, Joanni Nelson Horchler, Robin Rice Morris,The SIDS Survival Guide: Information and Comfort for Grieving Family and Friends and Professionals who Seek to Help Them, page33:
        “Let’scall it. Time of death, 08:45.” The respiratory therapist stopped bagging. The doctor stopped CPR. There was no heartbeat on the monitor. Michael was dead.
      • 2012, Marcy O. Diehl,Medical Transcription: Techniques and Procedures (Seventh Edition), page127:
        EXAMPLES: Time of death wascalled at 16:34(Incorrect). Time of death wascalled at 1634 p.m.(Incorrect). Time of death wascalled at 1634 hours(Correct). NOTE: Military (or 24-hour) time is not used witha.m,p.m, oro’clock. It is frequently used to state birth and death times, as well as time of day in autopsy protocols. It is customary to write the wordhours after the figures.
      • 2015, Tracey Cleantis,The Next Happy: Let Go of the Life You Planned and Find a New Way Forward‎[2]:
        If you are staring your dream in the face and seeing that it is time to quit, I urge you tocall the time of death right now. You can sit here with this book in your hand and do it, or climb to a mountaintop and shout it, or write it on a message in a bottle and throw it out to sea. However you do it,do it. I can guarantee that there is life on the other side of the impossible. And naming the time of death is an important process in moving on, letting go, and getting to the other side.
    4. To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
      After the third massive failure, Johncalled the whole initiative.
    5. (sports) Tomake adecision as areferee orumpire.
      The goal wascalled offside.
  5. (heading, sports)Direct or indirect use of the voice.
    1. (cricket) (of abatsman): Toshoutdirections to the other batsman onwhether or not they should take a run.
    2. (baseball, cricket) (of afielder): To shout to other fielders that heintends to take acatch (thusavoidingcollisions).
    3. (billiards) To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
      Synonyms:name,nominate;see alsoThesaurus:specify
      Every shot must becalled.
    4. (intransitive, poker) Toequal the same amount that otherplayers are currently betting.
      I bet $800 and Jane raised to $1600. My options:call (match her $1600 bet), reraise, or fold.
    5. (intransitive, poker, proscribed) Tomatch the current bet amount, in preparation for araise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
      I’llcall your 300, and raise to 600!
    6. (transitive) Tostate, or invoke arule, in many games such asbridge,craps,jacks, and so on.
      My partnercalled two spades.
  6. (transitive, sometimes withfor) Torequire,demand.
    He feltcalled to help the old man.
  7. (transitive, withinto) Tocause to be verballysubjected to.
    • 1910,Emerson Hough, “The Gateway, and Some Who Passed”, inThe Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC,page29:
      Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as tocall into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
    The basis for his conclusion wascalled into doubt
  8. (transitive, colloquial) Tolay claim to an object or role which isup for grabs.
    Icall the comfy chair!
    • 1998, “The Trouble with Trillions”, inThe Simpsons‎[3], season 9:
      Mr. Burns: Any of these islands would make a fine new country. / Homer: Icall president! / Mr. Burns: Vice president! / Smithers: [groans]
  9. (transitive, finance) Toannounce the earlyextinction of adebt byprepayment, usually at apremium.
  10. (transitive, banking) Todemandrepayment of aloan.
  11. (transitive, computing) Tojump to (another part of aprogram); to perform someoperation, returning to the original point oncompletion.
    A recursive function is one thatcalls itself.

Usage notes

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  • In older forms of English, when the pronounthou was in active use, and verbs used-est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verbcall had the formcallest, and hadcalledst for its past tense.
  • Similarly, when the ending-eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the formcalleth was used.
  • The sense of naming an object, as with the phraseit’s called a(n), is intended to humiliate a listener when the object is known to be familiar:
    Hey, here’s something to keep you dry in the rain. It’scalled an umbrella.

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofcall
infinitive(to)call
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularcallcalled
2nd-personsingularcallest2called,calledst2
3rd-personsingularcalls,calleth2called
pluralcallcalled
subjunctivecallcalled
imperativecall—
participlescallingcalled,call'd2

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → Kashubian:kolowac(United States)

Translations

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to request, summon, or beckon
to cry or shout
to contact by telephone
to pay a social visit
to name or refer to
sports: to make a decision as a referee or umpire
to shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run
to shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch thus avoiding collisions
to match or equal the amount of poker chips in the pot as the player that bet
to require, demand
to state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on
to jump to another part of a program
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Noun

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call (countable anduncountable,pluralcalls)

  1. A cry orshout.
    He heard acall from the other side of the room.
  2. The characteristiccry of a bird or other animal.
    That sound is the distinctivecall of the cuckoo bird.
  3. Abeckoning orsummoning.
    I had to yield to thecall of the wild.
  4. A telephoneconversation; aphone call.
    I received several phonecalls today.
    I received severalcalls today.
  5. An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
    I made acall to Jim, but he didn’t answer.
  6. A shortvisit, usually forsocial purposes.
    I paid acall to a dear friend of mine.
    • 1785,William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, inThe Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […],→OCLC,pages13–14:
      He [...] ſeldom waits, / Dependent on the baker's punctualcall, / To hear his creaking panniers at the door, / Angry and ſad and his laſt cruſt conſumed.
    • 1938,Norman Lindsay,Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.:Ure Smith, published1962,→OCLC, page149:
      Podson stayed till after five, though he handsomely apologized for outstaying acall. "The fact is, I never think of the time, when I get talking to a really intelligent woman...'
  7. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
    The ship made acall at Southampton.
  8. Adecision orjudgement.
    That was a goodcall.
    • 1995,Paul Vautin,Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 2:
      Faircall actually, because don't the girls blow up when you miss an anniversary?
  9. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; thefloor.
    The Prime Minister has thecall.
    I give thecall to the Manager of Opposition Business.
  10. (finance)Ellipsis ofcall option.
  11. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
  12. (cricket) Thestate of being the batsman whoserole it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
  13. (uncountable) A workshift which requires one to beavailable whenrequested, i.e.on call.
    • 1978,Alan E. Nourse,The Practice‎[4], Harper & Row,→ISBN:
      page 48: “Mondays would be great, especially after a weekend ofcall.”
      page 56: “[…] I’ve gotcall tonight, and all weekend, but I’ll be off tomorrow to help you some.”
    • 2007, William D. Bailey,You Will Never Run out of Jesus, CrossHouse Publishing,,→ISBN,page29:
      I took general-surgerycall at Bossier Medical Center and asked special permission to take general-medicalcall, which was gladly given away by the older staff members:[…]. You would be surprised at how many surgical cases came out of medicalcall.
    • 2008, Jamal M. Bullockset al.,Plastic Surgery Emergencies: Principles and Techniques, Thieme,→ISBN,page ix:
      We attempted to include all topics that we ourselves have faced while taking plastic surgerycall at the affiliated hospitals in the Texas Medical Center, one of the largest medical centers in the world, which sees over 100,000 patients per day.
    • 2009, Steven Louis Shelley,A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting, page171:
      The columns in the second rectangle show fewer hours, but part of that is due to the fact that there's a division between a workcall and a showcall.
  14. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
  15. A statement of a particularstate, orrule, made in many games such asbridge,craps,jacks, and so on.
    There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and mycall was 9.
  17. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
  18. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
  19. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
  20. A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. Agame call.
  21. An invitation to take charge of or serve achurch as itspastor.
  22. (archaic) Vocation; employment;calling.
  23. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
  24. (informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with aclient for paid sex;hookup;job.
    • 2015 March 3, Lyda Longa, “Internet hookups mean fewer prostitutes on Daytona’s streets, police say”, inThe Daytona Beach News-Journal‎[5], Daytona Beach, Fla.:
      "They have a little network of women that watch out for each other," Morford said. That means that if one prostitute doesn't come back after going out on acall – whether it's an Internet prostitute or a streetwalker – and the other women can't get hold of her, they get scared, close up shop and won't work, Morford said.
  25. (law) A lawyer who wascalled to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
    • 2020 October 28, Master K.E. Jolley, “Korlyakov v. Riesz, 2020 ONSC 6622”, inCanLII‎[6], retrieved19 June 2021:
      The work was done by two lawyers, one a 1983call and the other a 2010call.
  26. (in negative constructions) Need; necessity.
    There's nocall for that kind of bad language!
    • 1865, William Stott Banks,Wakefield Words, page11:
      CALL 2 need for. "There worn't noa call for nowt o't'soart."

Hyponyms

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Descendants

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Translations

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cry or shout
characteristic cry of a bird or other animal
beckoning or summoning
telephone conversation
instance of calling someone on the telephone
social visit
nautical: visit by a ship or boat to a port
decision or judgement
right to speak
finance: short for option to buy stock—see alsocall option
cricket: act of calling to the other batsman
cricket: state of being the batsman whose role it is to call
type of work shift
computing: act of jumping to a subprogram
statement of a particular state or rule in many games
poker: act of matching a bet
note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt
nautical: whistle or pipe used to summon the sailors to duty
instrument to call birds or animals
invitation to take charge of or serve a church
vocation, employment, calling
law: reference to, or statement of a matter of description
prostitution: meeting with a client
law: lawyer who was called to the bar in a specified year
need, necessity

Albanian

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Etymology

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A truncation ofcallok.[1]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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call (femininecalle)

  1. (regional)inapt,unuseful,naive
    Synonyms:papërshtatshëm,paaftë,axhami

References

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  1. ^Çabej,E. (1987), “camërdhok”, inStudime etimologjike në fushë të shqipes (in Albanian), volumes III: C–D, Tirana, page 8

Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited fromLatincallis(“alley, narrow street, passageway”). CompareSpanishcalle(“street”).

Noun

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call m (pluralcalls)

  1. passageway
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Etymology 2

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Inherited fromLatincallum.

Noun

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call m (uncountable)

  1. corn
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Etymology 3

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Borrowed fromHebrewקָהָל(qahál,“assembly, synagogue”).

Noun

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call m (pluralcalls)

  1. Jewish quarter
    Synonym:jueria

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Chinese

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Etymology

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FromEnglishcall.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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call

  1. (chiefly Hong Kong Cantonese)radiocall;phone call(Classifier:個／个c)
  2. (Hong Kong Cantonese)summoning of people
  3. (ACG)Wotagei

Verb

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call

  1. (chiefly Hong Kong Cantonese) tocall(with mobile phones,pagers,beepers, etc.)
    call車／call车[Cantonese]  ― ko1 ce1[Jyutping]  ―  to call a vehicle, especially ataxi or avan
  2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) tosummon people

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Irish

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Etymology 1

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(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

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Noun

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call m (genitive singularcall)

  1. call,need
  2. claim,right
Declension
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Declension ofcall (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominativecall
vocativeachall
genitivecall
dativecall
forms with thedefinite article
singular
nominativeancall
genitiveanchall
dativeleis angcall
donchall
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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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call m (genitive singularcaill)

  1. Ulster form ofcoll(“hazel”)
Declension
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Declension ofcall (first declension, no plural)
forms with thedefinite article
singular
nominativeancall
genitiveanchaill
dativeleis angcall
donchall

Mutation

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Mutated forms ofcall
radicallenitioneclipsis
callchallgcall

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishcall.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation:call

Noun

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call m orf (pluralcalls)

  1. (Internetslang) acall(audio or video conversation)
    Synonym:chamada
    Vamos fazercall mais tarde?
    Wanna go onVC later?

Further reading

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  • “call”, inDicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025

Scottish Gaelic

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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call m (genitive singularcalla,pluralcallaidhean)

  1. verbal noun ofcaill
  2. loss
  3. waste

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutation ofcall
radicallenition
callchall

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
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Welsh

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Welshcall, fromProto-Brythonic*kall (compareCornishcal), possibly a borrowing fromVulgar Latin*caldus, fromLatincallidus(“wise, clever; cunning”) (and if so,doublet ofcaled(“hard”)).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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call (feminine singularcall,pluralcall,equativecalled,comparativecallach,superlativecallaf)

  1. wise,sensible,rational
    Synonyms:doeth,deallus

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms ofcall
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
callgallnghallchall

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “call”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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