call – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to call to mind
Participle: called to mind
Gerund: calling to mind

Cognates

See the 6 cognates of call

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	call to mind
we	Let's call to mind
you	call to mind

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

cry or shout

shout

contact by telephone

telephone

rouse from sleep

awaken

name or refer to

denominate

predict

predict

to utter with a shout

cry, holler, roar, roop, scream, shout, yell

to call a person using a telephone

call up, drop a line, phone, ring, ring up, telephone

to know something in advance

anticipate, augur, divine, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, predict, presage, prophesy

to give a name to

bename, clepe, denominate, designate, dub, entitle, name, nominate, style, term

shout

exclaim, cry, hallo, hail, announce, voice, trumpet

telephone

dial

summon

convene, invite, convoke, assemble, collect

Antonyms

To demand repayment of a loan.

lend

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. O.E. ceallian, less common than clipian; replaced by O.N. kalla "to cry loudly," from P.Gmc. *kallojanan, from PIE base *gal- "to call, scream, shriek" (see calendar). Meaning "to give a name to" is c.1250. Meaning "to visit" (M.E.) was literally "to stand at the door and call;" sense of "a short formal visit" is from 1862; caller "visitor" is from 1786. Telephone/telegraph sense is from 1889 (hence slang call girl, c.1900, originally a prostitute dispatched by telephone). Coin-toss sense is from 1801. Calling "vocation" (1382) traces to I Cor. vii:20. To call out someone to fight (1823) corresponds to Fr. provoqueur. To call it a day is from 1834.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *gels-der.
4. Proto-Indo-European *golsos
5. Proto-Germanic *kalzazder.
6. Proto-Germanic *kalzōną
7. Proto-West Germanic *kalʀōn
8. Old English cealliander.
9. Old English *callian
10. Middle English callen
11. English call
12. 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”).
13. Cognates
14. * Scots call, caw, ca (“to call, cry, shout”)
15. * Dutch kallen (“to chat, talk”)
16. * German Low German kallen (“to speak, talk”)
17. * German kallen (“to call”)
18. * Swedish kalla (“to call, refer to, beckon”)
19. * Norwegian kalle (“to call, name”)
20. * Danish kalde (“to call, name”)
21. * Icelandic kalla (“to call, shout, name”)
22. * Welsh galw (“to call, demand”)
23. * Polish głos (“voice”)
24. * Lithuanian gal̃sas (“echo”)
25. * Russian голос (golos, “voice”)
26. * Albanian gjuhë (“language, tongue”). See: Middle English 'callen', Old Norse 'kalla', Proto-Germanic '*kalzōną', Dutch 'kallen', German, old spelling 'kallen', Swedish 'kalla', Danish 'kalde', Icelandic 'kalla', Welsh 'galw'.

Verbs referencing "call"

Sranan kari, Norwegian, nynorsk kalla, Papiamento kòl, German, old spelling kallen, Tok Pisin kolim, Cimbrian khallan.

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