καλέω

καλέω

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `call, by name = name (verb)' (Il.)

Other forms: ep. also κικλήσκω, Aeol. κάλημι, Cypr. καλήζω, aor. καλέσ(σ)αι (Il.), pass. κληθῆναι (Archil.), fut. καλέω (IA. since Γ 383), καλῶ (Att.), καλέσω (young Att., hell.), perf. med. κέκλημαι with fut. κεκλήσομαι (Il.), act. κέκληκα (Ar.).

Compounds: very often with prefix, e. g. ἀνα-, ἐν-, ἐκ-, ἐπι-, παρα-, προ-, προσ-, συν-, As 1. member in καλεσσί-χορος `calling to the dance' (Orph. L. 718; Schwyzer 443f.); on ὁμο-κλη (ὀμ-), -κλέω, -άω s. v.

Derivatives: With disyll. stem: 1. καλήτωρ adjunct of κῆρυξ `Caller' (Ω 577), also as PN (Ο 419) with Καλητορίδης (Ν 541); καλη- as in καλή-μεναι (Κ 125; Aeol. athemat. formation?), perhaps after κλη- (Schulze Q. 16f., Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 17), if not metrically lenghtned (Solmsen Unt. 17); diff. again Schwyzer 531 n. 7 (after καλέω etc. for κλη-); thus 2. Καλήσιος (Ζ 18); 3. κάλεσις = κλῆσις, `nominative' (gramm.). - With monosyll. stem: 4. κλῆσις `call, invitation, summons etc.' (Att. hell.), often from the prefixed verbs, e. g. ἐπίκλη-σις `surname' (Il.); 5. -κλημα, e. g. ἔγκλη-μα `reproach, accusation' (Att.) with ἐγκλήμων, -ματικός, -ματίζω etc. 6. κλητήρ, -ῆρος `herald, witness' (A., Att.); ὁμοκλη-τήρ `who calls' (Il.) from ὁμοκλη, -έω (s. v.); ἀνακλητήρια n. pl. `feast when a king is nominated' (Plb.); 7. κλήτωρ, -ορος `witness', also PN (hell.), after κλητήρ (Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 17f.; on καλήτωρ : κλητήρ Benveniste Noms d'agent 29, 40, 46). - 8. κλητός `called, invited, wellcome' (Hom.; Ammann Μνήμης χάριν 1, 14 a. 21) with κλητεύω `call to justice etc.' (Att.), (ἀνα- etc.) -κλη-τικός; often from the prefixed verbs, e. g. ἔκκλη-τος `called in' (IA. Dor.) with the collective abstract ἐκκλησία `(called) meeting' (IA.), `community, church' (LXX, NT); with ἐκκλησι-άζω and -αστής, -ασμός etc.; with nominal 1. member as compound [Zusammenbildung] in πολύ-κλη-τος `often called', i. e. `called on from many sides ' (Δ 438, Κ 420; diff., not convincing, Kronasser Sprache 3, 172f.). - 9. κλή-δην `by name' (Ι 11; cf. ἐξονομακλήδην); 10. ἐπίκλη-ν `with (sur)name' (Pl.; Schwyzer 425). - Deverbative formation καλιστρέω = καλέω (D. 47, 60 from Harp., Call.; prob. first from a noun, cf. ἐλαστρέω and Schwyzer 706). - On κληΐζω, κληδών (κλεη-, κληη-) s. κλέος.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [548] *k(e)lh₁- `call'

Etymology: The disyll. verbal stem in καλέ-σαι (analogical καλέσσαι), as in ὀλέ-σαι, ἀρό-σαι etc. (Schwyzer 752); with κλη- in κέ-κλη-μαι, κι-κλή-σκω, κλη-τός compare βλη- in βέ-βλη-μαι, βλη-τός, from zero grade *kl̥h₁-. Beside monosyllabic κλη- (beside καλέ-σαι) Latin has clā- (clā-mare, clā-rus; beside calā-re). The present καλέ-ω is no doubt an innovation, prob. to καλέσαι (Fraenkel Mélanges Boisacq 1, 367; diff. on καλέω, καλέσαι Specht KZ 59, 85ff.). - (Not cognate are κέλαδος `noise'.) The α-vowel in καλέ-σαι will go back to a sonantic l̥ ; the same vowel is found in Italic, Lat. calāre `declare', Umbr. kařetu (\< *kalē-tōd); further the not fully explained OHG, OS halōn `call, fetch' (= calāre), Hitt.kalleš- `call', Skt. uṣā-kal-a- `call' (s. ἠϊκανός). As in the semant. close IE. *kan- (s. καναχή) the a is clearly very old (is it connected with the onomatop. charcater of the verb?). - Forms in Pok. 548ff.; further W.-Hofmann and Ernout-Meillet s. calō.

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