schallen

From Middle Dutch scellen (“loud sound”), from Old Dutch skellan, from Proto-West Germanic *skellan, from Proto-Germanic *skellaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to shout”).^[1][2]

Cognate with Old English scellan (“to sound, make a noise”) and German schallen (“to sound, to resound”). Also see Old Norse skjalla (“to clatter”), Old English hlowan.

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• Rhymes: -ɑlən

schallen

1. to sound loudly
2. to resound, to echo

• (to sound loudly): luiden
• (to resound): galmen, nagalmen, weergalmen, echoën

• schal
• geschal

• schel

From Middle High German schallen, from the root of Schall (“sound”). The Grimms have it as corrupt form of Middle High German schëllen (inflected schal, geschollen),^[1] from Proto-West Germanic *skellan, from Proto-Germanic *skellaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃalən/

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schallen (weak or irregular strong, third-person singular present schallt, past tense schallte or (less common) scholl, past participle geschallt, past subjunctive schallte or (less common) schölle, auxiliary haben)

1. (intransitive) to sound, ring (out)
   • 1942, Stefan Zweig, Die Welt von Gestern [The World of Yesterday]‎:

     […] ebenso glücklich waren wie wir selbst, wenn mittags die Schulglocke scholl, die ihnen und uns die Freiheit gab.

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The weak (regular) forms are more common.

• erschallen
• beschallen
• überschallen

• “schallen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “schallen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “schallen” in Duden online
• “schallen” in OpenThesaurus.de