Meaning

1 senses

  1. (dialectal, obsolete)To ask, inquire.

Origin

From Middle English fraynen, freinen (“to ask”), from Old English freġnan, friġnan (“to as

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”).

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Forms

frains, fraining, frained, frained
Base formfrain · to frain
3rd person singularfrains
Present participlefraining
Past simplefrained
Past participlefrained

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfrain
he, she, itfrains

Past simpleLesson

all personsfrained

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave frained
he, she, ithas frained

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill frain

Word family

1 related words
Derivedfraining

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
fragrantfrailframeB2frameworkfranc
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