See asken in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"present",
"singular"
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"singular",
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"singular",
"subjunctive"
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},
{
"form": "aske",
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"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
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"imperative",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "asken",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "aske",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "askeden",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "askede",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "askynge",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "askende",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "asked",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "aske",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "aski",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "axen",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "axe",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "axien",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Early-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "eski",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Early-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "eskien",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Early-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "oxien",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Early-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "easki",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "easkin",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "asskenn",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Ormulum"
]
},
{
"form": "asshe",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "asche",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "axse",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "axsy",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "axie",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "ix",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "acsy",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Kent"
]
},
{
"form": "oxi",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Kent"
]
},
{
"form": "esche",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "esse",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
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"head": ""
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"name": "head"
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"y": "0"
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"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
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}
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"senses": [
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"categories": [
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"Middle English intransitive verbs",
"Middle English terms with quotations",
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"english": "But if they want to learn anything, they should ask their husbands at home, because it's a revolting thing for a woman to speak in church.",
"ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Coꝛinthis ·i· 14:35, folio 66, verso, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
"text": "but if þei wolen ony þing lerne .· at hoom axe þei her hoſebondis / foꝛ it is foule þing to a womman .· to ſpeke in chirche",
"translation": "But if they want to learn anything, they should ask their husbands at home, because it's a revolting thing for a woman to speak in church.",
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],
"tags": [
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"english": "Ask, and you'll receive it; look, and you'll find; knock, and it'll be opened for you. / Because anyone who asks takes, someone that looks finds, and that'll be opened to them that knocks.",
"ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Matheu 7:7-8, folio 3, verso, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
"text": "Axe ȝe .· ⁊ it ſchal be ȝouun to ȝou / ſeke ȝe .· ⁊ ȝe ſchulen fynde / knocke ȝe .· ⁊ it ſchal be opened to ȝou / foꝛ ech that axiþ .· takiþ / and he that ſekiþ .· fyndiþ / and it ſchal be openyde to hym .· that knockiþ",
"translation": "Ask, and you'll receive it; look, and you'll find; knock, and it'll be opened for you. / Because anyone who asks takes, someone that looks finds, and that'll be opened to them that knocks.",
"type": "quotation"
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],
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],
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[
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[
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"(ambitransitive, ditransitive) To ask (someone or something):",
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],
"tags": [
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},
{
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"english": "It isn't at all good for the spirit that the gut demands, / or sustenance for your body, since a liar teaches it.",
"ref": "c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “Paſſus pͥm᷒ de vıſıone”, in Lıber de petro plowman (L, B-text), London, published c. 1395, folio 4, recto; republished as Hoyt N. Duggan, Ralph Hanna, editors, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Laud misc. 581 (The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; 6), SEENET, 2014, →ISBN:",
"text": "It ıs nauȝt al gode to þe goſte· þat þe gutte axeþ / Ne lıflode to þı lıkam· foꝛ a lyer hım techeth",
"translation": "It isn't at all good for the spirit that the gut demands, / or sustenance for your body, since a liar teaches it.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To ask (someone or something):",
"To command, demand, or require."
],
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[
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],
[
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]
],
"raw_glosses": [
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"To command, demand, or require."
],
"tags": [
"ambitransitive",
"ditransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English ditransitive verbs",
"Middle English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To look or search for; to attempt to obtain."
],
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[
"look",
"look"
],
[
"search",
"search"
],
[
"attempt",
"attempt"
],
[
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, ditransitive) To look or search for; to attempt to obtain."
],
"tags": [
"ditransitive",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To investigate or examine (something)."
],
"links": [
[
"investigate",
"investigate"
],
[
"examine",
"examine"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To investigate or examine (something)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with rare senses",
"Middle English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To aim to visit a location."
],
"links": [
[
"visit",
"visit"
],
[
"location",
"location"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare, transitive) To aim to visit a location."
],
"tags": [
"rare",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with rare senses",
"Middle English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To extend towards."
],
"links": [
[
"extend",
"extend"
],
[
"toward",
"toward"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare, transitive) To extend towards."
],
"tags": [
"rare",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈaskən/",
"tags": [
"general"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈaksən/",
"note": "not Northern or North Midlands"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈaʃ-/",
"note": "uncommon, especially West Midland"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɛʃ-/",
"note": "mostly Gloucestershire"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɔksiən/",
"note": "early Southern"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɔksiː/",
"tags": [
"Kent"
]
}
],
"word": "asken"
}
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