frain
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of frain
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(dialectal, obsolete, transitive)To ask, inquire.
“Ones yet agayne Of you I wolde frayne, Why come ye nat to court ?”
“Theyr myndes disdayne: Gods actes to frain …”
“And so answerd ever when so the said Umphra frayned the said Thomas; and otherwaies this examinate never hard the said Thomas speak anything of himself to any bodye, duringe the spaic of an hower or more, that this examinate was with the said Thomas.”
“I, musing, frain'd her meaning: she / Her meaning thus did tell.”
“Nor far had spurr'd the warrior, ere a crew Of hinds and sun-burnt woodmen met his view, Frayn'd by the knight, they told, a beauteous maid, Who, loudly shrieking, call'd on heav'n for aid, [...]”
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verb
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(dialectal, obsolete, transitive)To ask, inquire.
“Ones yet agayne Of you I wolde frayne, Why come ye nat to court ?”
“Theyr myndes disdayne: Gods actes to frain …”
“And so answerd ever when so the said Umphra frayned the said Thomas; and otherwaies this examinate never hard the said Thomas speak anything of himself to any bodye, duringe the spaic of an hower or more, that this examinate was with the said Thomas.”
“I, musing, frain'd her meaning: she / Her meaning thus did tell.”
“Nor far had spurr'd the warrior, ere a crew Of hinds and sun-burnt woodmen met his view, Frayn'd by the knight, they told, a beauteous maid, Who, loudly shrieking, call'd on heav'n for aid, [...]”
name
- A surname from Old French.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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,…
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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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