posco
Latin
verb
Definitions
- I beg, I demand, I request, I desire.
- I demand for punishment, I ask the surrender of.
- I call someone.
- I ask in marriage, I demand one's hand.
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Italic *porskō inherited from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥(ḱ)sḱéti, *pr̥sḱéti, *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
- -ēscō Latin
- 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
- Forscher German
- ausforschen German
- forschen German
- nachforschen German
- -isce Italian
- -isci Italian
- -isco Italian
- *preḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *pr̥(ḱ)sḱéti, *pr̥sḱéti Proto-Indo-European
- forske Norwegian Bokmål
- *fragjaną Proto-Germanic
- *frehnaną Proto-Germanic
- *frigjaną Proto-Germanic
- *frēgōną Proto-Germanic
- befrignan Old English
- freġnan Old English
- friġnan Old English
- fræġn Old English
- gefrignan Old English
- gregnan, freġnan Old English
- पृच्छति Sanskrit
- forske Danish
- *prositi Proto-Slavic
- anrheg Welsh
- rheg Welsh
- vorschen Middle High German
- *ɸarsketi Proto-Celtic
- *pr̥šćáti Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *porskō Proto-Italic
- проситель Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- просити Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- *pr̥ćśáti Proto-Indo-Aryan
- *pr̥śćáti Proto-Indo-Aryan
- pirs Northern Kurdish
- 𑀧𑀼𑀘𑁆𑀙𑀤𑀺 Sauraseni Prakrit
- 𑀧𑀼𑀘𑁆𑀙𑀇 Maharastri Prakrit
- *preš- Proto-Balto-Slavic
- ਪੁੱਛਣਾ Panjabi, Punjabi
- phúčik Kalasha