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Middle English
Etymology
Inherited from Old English fræġnian, variant of freġnan, friġnan (“to inquire, ask”), from Proto-West Germanic *fregnan, from Proto-Germanic *frehnaną; reinforced by Old Norse fregna.
Verb
fraynen (third-person singular simple present frayneth, present participle fraynende, fraynynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle frayned)
- To ask or inquire; to make an inquiry:
- To ask or make a request (for something).
- fifteenth century, unknown author, The prophecies of Thomas the Rhymer:
- I frained fast what was his name, Where that he came, from what country.
- To ask or direct a question at someone:
c. 1370-90, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section I:Þanne I frained hir faire · for hym þat hir made. or Then I frayned at Faith what all that fare meant and who should joust in Jerusalem.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales:She fraineth and she prayeth pitously To every Jew that dwelt in thilke place To tell her if her child went ought forby.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
15th c., “Annunciacio ”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 91, lines 183–187:[Joseph:] Bot certys, mary, I rew full sore / It standys so with the[e] now. / Bot of a thyng frayn the[e] I shall / who owe this child thou gose with all? / Maria. Syr, ye, and god of heuen.- Joseph: But Mary, I very much regret that circumstances are as they are with you. But one thing I will ask you: Who's child is this that you are pregnant with? / Mary: You, sir, and God of heaven.
- To ask or put forward (a question).
- To look or search for something.
- To acquire knowledge through asking.
Conjugation
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
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