asken
See also: äsken
English
Etymology
From Middle English asken, axen, equivalent to ask + -en.
Verb
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, 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, […]
Danish
Middle English
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Norwegian Nynorsk
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