Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to prawn
Participle: prawned
Gerund: prawning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | prawn |
| you | prawn |
| he;she;it | prawns |
| we | prawn |
| you | prawn |
| they | prawn |
Perfect
| I | have prawned |
| you | have prawned |
| he;she;it | has prawned |
| we | have prawned |
| you | have prawned |
| they | have prawned |
Past
| I | prawned |
| you | prawned |
| he;she;it | prawned |
| we | prawned |
| you | prawned |
| they | prawned |
Pluperfect
| I | had prawned |
| you | had prawned |
| he;she;it | had prawned |
| we | had prawned |
| you | had prawned |
| they | had prawned |
Future
| I | will prawn |
| you | will prawn |
| he;she;it | will prawn |
| we | will prawn |
| you | will prawn |
| they | will prawn |
Future Perfect
| I | will have prawned |
| you | will have prawned |
| he;she;it | will have prawned |
| we | will have prawned |
| you | will have prawned |
| they | will have prawned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | prawn |
| you | prawn |
| he;she;it | prawn |
| we | prawn |
| you | prawn |
| they | prawn |
Perfect
| I | have prawned |
| you | have prawned |
| he;she;it | have prawned |
| we | have prawned |
| you | have prawned |
| they | have prawned |
Imperfect
| I | prawned |
| you | prawned |
| he;she;it | prawned |
| we | prawned |
| you | prawned |
| they | prawned |
Pluperfect
| I | had prawned |
| you | had prawned |
| he;she;it | had prawned |
| we | had prawned |
| you | had prawned |
| they | had prawned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would prawn |
| you | would prawn |
| he;she;it | would prawn |
| we | would prawn |
| you | would prawn |
| they | would prawn |
Perfect
| I | would have prawned |
| you | would have prawned |
| he;she;it | would have prawned |
| we | would have prawned |
| you | would have prawned |
| they | would have prawned |
Imperative
| you | prawn |
| we | Let's prawn |
| you | prawn |
Verbs conjugated like 'prawn'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'prawn'
brawn,
pawn,
brain,
brawl,
brown,
craw,
crawk,
crawl,
crown,
dawn,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. First attested early 1400s as various Middle English forms prayne, prane, praune, and prawne, which present no clear cognates in languages other than English. The forms suggest a hypothetical Old English form *prægn, where *æg would have evolved into Middle English *ay, but it is unclear if the word is of Germanic origin, from another European language, or loaned from a substrate. In the Isle of Wight, a word prankle ("prawn") is recorded and thought to be related. Century, following Skeat, suggested transposition of an unrecorded Old French *parne, *perne related to Spanish perna (“a flat shellfish”), Old Italian perna and diminutive pernochie, parnocchie, glossed as "shrimps or prawne, fishes" by John Florio, but the OED considers Florio's entry incorrect and the suggested connection semantically and phonologically implausible.
2. Etymology 1, noun sense 3 ("woman with attractive body and unattractive face") is from the idea of discarding the head of a prawn before eating it.
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