asken
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See also: äsken
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English asken, axen, equivalent to ask + -en.
Verb[edit]
asken
- (obsolete) plural simple present of ask
- c. 1450, Prose Merlin:
- And Merlin seide, "Of that ye me asken, I shall not speke withoute Ulfyn."
- c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Myne owne John Poyntz”, in Egerton MS 2711[1], page 49r:
- And much the leſſe of thinges that greater be
that aſken helpe of colours of deviſe
- a. 1727, Alexander Pope, Imitations of English Poets: Chaucer:
- They asken that, and talken this, […]
Anagrams[edit]
Danish[edit]
Noun[edit]
asken c
Middle English[edit]
Verb[edit]
asken
- Alternative form of axen (“to ask”)
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
asken m
Etymology 2[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
asken m or f
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Noun[edit]
asken m
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
asken
Anagrams[edit]
Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms suffixed with -en (plural present)
- English non-lemma forms
- English verb forms
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English terms with quotations
- Danish non-lemma forms
- Danish noun forms
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English verbs
- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Bokmål noun forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk noun forms
- Swedish non-lemma forms
- Swedish noun forms