Callyng

Part of speech: verb, noun

Definitions

1. An archaic spelling of a person's vocation or trade, the work someone feels drawn to do ; the act of summoning or loudly shouting out to someone
2. A work or profession a person believes they are meant to pursue ; a loud summons or cry sent out to attract someone's attention
3. The occupation or trade one is destined for, sometimes felt as an inner urge ; the shouting or summoning out that draws another's attention

Etymology: "Callyng" is a Middle English spelling of "calling," the verbal noun formed from "call." The verb itself came into English from Old Norse "kalla," brought by Scandinavian settlers in northern England. It gradually displaced the native Old English "clypian," which survived mainly in the archaic "clepe." The earliest sense was simply a loud cry or summons. The idea of a divine summons to a particular way of life came later, and that is how the word came to mean a vocation or career. The word's core meaning, a call that someone answers, stayed the same through both senses.