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Word: 'ask' • Extended Annotations



ask

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Ancestral Lore

Ancestral Lore of ask

from Proto-Germanic *aiskojanan
from Old English ascian "ask, call for an answer, make a request"
Middle English asken
earlier ahsian

Compare with ascian (noun)
See also ascung

ask verb
  • to say or otherwise communicate (something) in order to obtain an answer or information

ascian verb
  • Variant of ask: To say or otherwise communicate (something) in order to obtain an answer or information. transitive. With indirect or, less commonly, direct question

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"Be that as it may, I ask you: What is curiosity? What is inquisitiveness? Both pertain to the asking of questions — but — what does it mean to ask? What does it mean to have an inquiry or a curiosity?"

"Weird Genius"
The Story of Your Ankh

by Sabina Nore



The modern dialectical ax is as old as the Old English ascian and used to be an accepted literary variant until circa 1600.

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