frain

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To ask, inquire. dialectal,obsolete,transitive
    — Ones yet agayne Of you I wolde frayne, Why come ye nat to court ?

词形变化

frains present,singular,third-person fraining participle,present frained participle,past frained past frein alternative frane alternative fraine alternative,obsolete frayn alternative,obsolete frayne alternative,obsolete freyne alternative,obsolete

词源

From Middle English fraynen, freinen (“to ask”), from Old English freġnan, friġnan (“to ask, inquire, learn”), from Proto-West Germanic *fregnan, from Proto-Germanic *frehnaną (“to ask”), from Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- (“to ask, woo”).
Cognates
Cognate with Icelandic fregna (“to ask, inquire”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌽𐌰𐌽 (fraihnan, “to ask”). Related also to Dutch vragen (“to ask”), German fragen (“to ask”), Norwegian frega (“to ask”), Latin precor (“ask, beseech”), Sanskrit पृच्छति (pṛccháti, “to ask”), Lithuanian prašyti (“to request”), Polish prosić (“to request”).
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