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kalla

kalla

See also: källa

Albanian

Noun

kalla ?

  1. slander, calumny

Related terms

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse kalla, from Proto-Germanic *kalzōną.

Verb

kalla ‎(third person singular past indicative kallaði, third person plural past indicative kallað, supine kallað)

  1. to call

Conjugation

Finnish

Leaves and inflorescence of Zantedeschia aethiopica.

Noun

kalla

  1. Zantedeschia, calla lily, arum lily (plant of the genus Zantedeschia)
  2. calla lily, arum lily, hardy arum, Zantedeschia aethiopica

Declension

Inflection of kalla (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative kalla kallat
genitive kallan kallojen
partitive kallaa kalloja
illative kallaan kalloihin
singular plural
nominative kalla kallat
accusative nom. kalla kallat
gen. kallan
genitive kallan kallojen
kallainrare
partitive kallaa kalloja
inessive kallassa kalloissa
elative kallasta kalloista
illative kallaan kalloihin
adessive kallalla kalloilla
ablative kallalta kalloilta
allative kallalle kalloille
essive kallana kalloina
translative kallaksi kalloiksi
instructive — kalloin
abessive kallatta kalloitta
comitative — kalloineen

Usage notes

The plants of the related genus Calla are called suovehka in Finnish.

Synonyms

  • (Zantedeschia): huonevehka
  • (Zantedeschia aethiopica): valkohuonevehka

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse kalla, from Proto-Germanic *kalzōną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʰatla/
  • Rhymes: -atla

Verb

kalla ‎(weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kallaði, supine kallað)

  1. to call, name, to refer to
    Hann er kallaður Vífill.
    He's called Vífill.
  2. to call, to shout
    • 1928, Krummavísa (“Raven Song”, on Icealandic Wikisource) by Jón Ásgeirsson
      Krummi krunkar úti,
      kallar á nafna sinn:
      „Ég fann höfuð af hrúti
      hrygg og gæruskinn.“
      Komdu nú og kroppaðu með mér,
      krummi nafni minn.
      “Krummi croaks outside,
      calling his namesake:
      ‘I found the head of a ram,
      backbone and sheepskin.’
      Come now and peck with me,
      Krummi, my namesake.”

Conjugation

kallast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur) 		að kallast
supine
(sagnbót) 		kallast
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar) 		kallandist **
** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses
indicative
(framsöguháttur) 		subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð) 		ég kallast við köllumst present
(nútíð) 		ég kallist við köllumst
þú kallast þið kallist þú kallist þið kallist
hann, hún, það kallast þeir, þær, þau kallast hann, hún, það kallist þeir, þær, þau kallist
past
(þátíð) 		ég kallaðist við kölluðumst past
(þátíð) 		ég kallaðist við kölluðumst
þú kallaðist þið kölluðust þú kallaðist þið kölluðust
hann, hún, það kallaðist þeir, þær, þau kölluðust hann, hún, það kallaðist þeir, þær, þau kölluðust
imperative
(boðháttur) 		kallast (þú) kallist (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
kallastu kallisti *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Latvian

kallas

Noun

kalla f (4th declension)

  1. calla

Declension

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse kalla.

Verb

kalla ‎(present tense kallar, past tense kalla, past participle kalla, passive infinitive kallast, present participle kallande, imperative kalla/kall)

  1. call (to cry or shout)
  2. call (to name or refer to)
    Kva kallar ein denne greia?
    What is this thing called?

References

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kalzōną.

Verb

kalla ‎(singular past indicative kallaði, plural past indicative kǫlluðu, past participle kallaðr)

  1. to call, to name, to refer to (as)
  2. to call, to shout

Conjugation

Conjugation of kalla — mediopassive (weak class 2)
infinitive kallask
present participle kallandisk
past participle kallazk
indicative present past
1st-person singular kǫllumk kǫlluðumk
2nd-person singular kallask kallaðisk
3rd-person singular kallask kallaðisk
1st-person plural kǫllumsk kǫlluðumsk
2nd-person plural kallizk kǫlluðuzk
3rd-person plural kallask kǫlluðusk
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular kǫllumk kǫlluðumk
2nd-person singular kallisk kallaðisk
3rd-person singular kallisk kallaðisk
1st-person plural kallimsk kallaðimsk
2nd-person plural kallizk kallaðizk
3rd-person plural kallisk kallaðisk
imperative present
2nd-person singular kallask
1st-person plural kǫllumsk
2nd-person plural kallizk

Descendants

References

  • kalla in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse kalla, from Proto-Germanic *kalzōną.

Verb

kalla

  1. to call, name
  2. to summon, call for

Conjugation

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Conjugation of kalla (weak)
present past
infinitive kalla —
participle kallandi, -e kallaþer
active voice indicative subjunctive imperative indicative subjunctive
iæk kallar kalli, -e — kallaþi, -e kallaþi, -e
þū kallar kalli, -e kalla kallaþi, -e kallaþi, -e
han kallar kalli, -e — kallaþi, -e kallaþi, -e
vīr kallum, -om kallum, -om kallum, -om kallaþum, -om kallaþum, -om
īr kallin kallin kallin kallaþin kallaþin
þēr kalla kallin — kallaþu, -o kallaþin
mediopassive voice indicative subjunctive imperative indicative subjunctive
iæk kallas kallis, -es — kallaþis, -es kallaþis, -es
þū kallas kallis, -es — kallaþis, -es kallaþis, -es
han kallas kallis, -es — kallaþis, -es kallaþis, -es
vīr kallums, -oms kallums, -oms — kallaþums, -oms kallaþums, -oms
īr kallins kallins — kallaþins kallaþins
þēr kallas kallins — kallaþus, -os kallaþins

Descendants

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish kalla, from Old Norse kalla, from Proto-Germanic *kalzōną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kalːa/

Verb

kalla ‎(present kallar, preterite kallade, supine kallat, imperative kalla)

  1. to call, denote, refer to; to give as a name
  2. to call, request, beckon, summon
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Adjective

kalla

  1. absolute singular definite and plural form of kall.

Etymology

From *kallë, derivative of kall.

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