Infinitive
frain
Participles
| Present | frainin |
| Past | fraint |
Present
frains
Past
fraint
Verbs conjugated like frain
sairch,
souder,
flauchter,
upstraucht,
yammer,
bauther,
backspeir,
backspeer,
blikken,
blether,
daunton,
breenge,
scunner,
superexpend,
scrieve,
scowder,
scooder,
disable,
besmarten,
souther, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Etymology
From Middle English fraynen, frainen, freinen, from Old English freġnan (“to ask”) and Old Norse fregna (“to ask”), from Proto-Germanic *frehnaną. See: Middle English '
fraynen', Proto-Germanic '
*frehnaną'.
Translations
ask, request an answer
ask, make a request