answeren
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
- ansswer, ansuerie, answaren, answer, answere, answerye, onsware, onswere, ounsweren, unswere
- andswaren, andswerien, andsweriȝen, anndswerenn, ondswerie, onswerie, onswerien (Early Middle English)
Etymology edit
From Old English andswerian (from Proto-Germanic *andaswarjaną) and Old English andswarian (from Proto-Germanic *andaswarōną); equivalent to and- + swaren or answere + -en (infinitival suffix).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
answeren (third-person singular simple present answereth, present participle answerende, answerynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle answered)
- To answer or respond; to offer a response:
- (especially law) To provide an explanation; to justify or refute.
- (religion) To explain oneself at the Last Judgement.
- (rare) To respond to a request for assistance.
- (rare) To provide one's choice as a response.
- To be responsible for (a task, another person):
- To match or correspond to (in number or nature)
- (rare, of crops) To net; to provide sustenance.
- (rare) To pay a tariff or fee on goods.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of answeren (weak in -ed/-de)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “answēren, -ien, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-05.