frainen
Middle English
verb
Definitions
- to ask (someone about something), to inquire
- to ask (a question)
Etymology
Inherited from Old English freġnan (ask, inquire), friġnan (ask, inquire) inherited from Proto-Germanic *frehnaną (ask) derived 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
- counterquestion English
- cross-question English
- frain English
- midquestion English
- nonquestion English
- postulate English
- precarious English
- precarity English
- precatory English
- question English
- questionability English
- questionable English
- questionary English
- questionee English
- questioner English
- questionest English
- questioneth English
- questionful English
- questioning English
- questionist English
- questionless English
- requestion English
- subquestion English
- unquestionable 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
- fragen German
- questionner French
- *preḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *pr̥(ḱ)sḱéti, *pr̥sḱéti Proto-Indo-European
- *fragjaną Proto-Germanic
- *frehnaną Proto-Germanic
- *frigjaną Proto-Germanic
- *frēgōną Proto-Germanic
- befrignan Old English
- freġnan Old English
- frignan Old English
- friġnan Old English
- fræġn Old English
- gefrignan Old English
- gregnan, freġnan Old English
- fraynen Middle English
- question Middle English
- fregna Old Norse
- *prositi Proto-Slavic
- kwestiyon Cebuano
- anrheg Welsh
- rheg Welsh
- frāgēn Old High German
- questionar Ido
- vrāgen Middle High German
- 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌽𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *ɸarsketi Proto-Celtic
- vregen Middle Low German
- fregnan Old Saxon
- frääge Alemannic German
- fregia Old Frisian
- pirs Northern Kurdish
- kwesten Tok Pisin
- *preš- Proto-Balto-Slavic
- frohe Hunsrik