frignan
Old English
verb
Definitions
- to ask, pray
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *frehnaną (ask) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- (ask, woo, request).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*preḱ-
Gloss
ask, woo, request
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
聞
Emoji
🙏
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- postulate English
- precarious English
- precarity English
- precatory English
- deprecatio Latin
- deprecor Latin
- dēprecātiōnem Latin
- dēprecātus Latin
- imprecari Latin
- imprecātiō Latin
- percontor Latin
- postulo Latin
- precarius Latin
- precativus Latin
- precor Latin
- precārius Latin
- precārī Latin
- prex Latin
- procus Latin
- Fangfrage German
- Frage German
- Fragebogen German
- Fragenkatalog German
- Fragewort German
- Gegenfrage German
- Judenfrage German
- Rassenfrage German
- Vertrauensfrage German
- fraglich German
- fraglos German
- *preḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *pr̥(ḱ)sḱéti, *pr̥sḱéti Proto-Indo-European
- *fragjaną Proto-Germanic
- *frehnaną Proto-Germanic
- *frigjaną Proto-Germanic
- *frēgōną Proto-Germanic
- freġnan Old English
- friġnan Old English
- पृच्छति Sanskrit
- fregna Old Norse
- *prositi Proto-Slavic
- fregna Icelandic
- anrheg Welsh
- rheg Welsh
- frāga Old High German
- frāgēn Old High German
- Fro Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- 𐌲𐌰𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌽𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌽𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *ɸarsketi Proto-Celtic
- vregen Middle Low German
- *pr̥šćáti Proto-Indo-Iranian
- fregnan Old Saxon
- gifregnan Old Saxon
- fræghna Old Swedish
- fräga Westrobothnian
- *pr̥ćśáti Proto-Indo-Aryan
- *pr̥śćáti Proto-Indo-Aryan
- fregia Old Frisian
- pirs Northern Kurdish
- 𑀧𑀼𑀘𑁆𑀙𑀤𑀺 Sauraseni Prakrit
- 𑀧𑀼𑀘𑁆𑀙𑀇 Maharastri Prakrit
- *preš- Proto-Balto-Slavic
- ਪੁੱਛਣਾ Panjabi, Punjabi
- Frooch Central Franconian
- Froh Hunsrik
- frög Vilamovian
- phúčik Kalasha