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{{also|Frain}}
==English==

===Alternative forms===
* {{alter|en|frein}} {{qualifier|Northern England}}
* {{alter|en|frane}} {{qualifier|Scotland}}
* {{alter|en|fraine|frayn|frayne|freyne||all obsolete}}

===Etymology===
From {{inh|en|enm|fraynen}}, {{m|enm|freinen||to ask}}, from {{inh|en|ang|freġnan}}, {{m|ang|friġnan||to ask, inquire, learn}}, from {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*fregnan}}, from {{inh|en|gem-pro|*frehnaną||to ask}}, from {{inh|en|ine-pro|*preḱ-||to ask, woo}}.

{{rel-top|Cognates:}}
Cognate with {{cog|is|fregna||to ask, inquire}}, {{cog|got|𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌽𐌰𐌽||to ask}}. Related also to {{cog|nl|vragen||to ask}}, {{cog|de|fragen||to ask}}, {{cog|no|frega||to ask}}, {{cog|la|precor||ask, beseech}}, {{cog|sa|पृच्छति|tr=pṛccháti||to ask}}, {{cog|lt|prašyti||to request}}, {{cog|pl|prosić||to request}}. {{rel-bottom}}

===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive|dialectal|or|obsolete}} To [[ask]], [[inquire]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1522|author=[[w:John Skelton (poet)|John Skelton]]|title=Why come ye nat to Courte
|passage=Ones yet agayne Of you I wolde '''frayne''', Why come ye nat to court ?}}
#* '''1555''', [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Parker,_Henry_(1476-1556) Henry Parker], ''The Exposition and Declaration of the Psalme Deus ultionum dominus'', XXVIII.:
#*: Theyr myndes disdayne: Gods actes to '''frain''' [...]
#* '''c. 1574''', William Strothers (clerk), ''Deposition of Thomas Hunter'', in "The Will of Humphrey Hopper",  in ''Depositions and Other Ecclesiastical Proceedings from the Courts of Durham: Extending from 1311 to the Reign of Elizabeth'':
#*: And so answerd ever when so the said Umphra '''frayned''' the said Thomas; and otherwaies this examinate never hard the said Thomas speak anything of himself to any bodye, duringe the spaic of an hower or more, that this examinate was with the said Thomas.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1592|author=[[w:William Warner (poet)|William Warner]]|title=Albion's England. Book VII
|passage=I, musing, '''frain'd''' her meaning: she / Her meaning thus did tell.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1803|translator=William Stuart Rose|title={{w|Amadis de Gaula}}, A Poem in Three Books|page=160
|passage=Nor far had spurr'd the warrior, ere a crew Of hinds and sun-burnt woodmen met his view, '''Frayn'd''' by the knight, they told, a beauteous maid, Who, loudly shrieking, call'd on heav'n for aid, [...]}}
#* '''1807''', {{w|Samuel Henshall}}, translating "The Durham Book" ('''c. 900'''); ''The Gothic Gospel of Saint Matthew'':
#*: But Jesus stood before the count; yea the count '''frayned''' him, quothing, thou is king of the Jews? but Jesus quoth to him, thou quoths.

====Derived terms====
* {{l|en|fraining}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=afinr|Irfan|infra-|FINRA|infra}}

==Middle English==

===Verb===
{{head|enm|verb}}

# {{alt form|enm|fraynen}}

==Old French==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|fro|la|frenum}}.

===Noun===
{{fro-noun|m}}

# [[bit]] {{gloss|equipment placed in a horse's mouth}}

====Descendants====
* {{desc|fr|frein}}

==Scots==

===Alternative forms===
* {{alter|sco|frane|frayn|frayne}}

===Etymology===
From {{inh|sco|enm|fraynen}}, {{m|enm|frainen}}, {{m|enm|freinen}}, from {{der|sco|ang|freġnan||to ask}} and {{der|sco|non|fregna||to ask}}, from {{der|sco|gem-pro|*frehnaną}}.

===Verb===
{{sco-verb}}

# {{lb|sco|transitive}} to [[ask]], ask about, ask for
# to [[enquire]]
# {{lb|sco|intransitive}} to make [[inquiry]]
# to [[request]]

====Related terms====
* {{l|sco|fraining}}

==Welsh==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|cy|/vrai̯n/}}

===Noun===
{{head|cy|mutated noun}}

# {{soft mutation of|cy|brain}}

===Mutation===
{{cy-mut|brain}}