axen

• Rhymes: -æksən

axen

1. (UK dialectal) plural of ash
2. (obsolete) plural of axe

• Xena, anex

axen

1. inflection of axar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative
2. third-person plural present indicative of axir

From Old English ācsian, āxian, metathetic forms of āscian, from Proto-West Germanic *aiskōn.

• axien, asken, askien, aschen, aishen, axe, axse, aske, asshe, asche, aski, eskien, eschen, easki, eski, ix, oxien, oxen, axie, axsy, asse, asskenn

• IPA^(key): /ˈaksən/, /ˈaskən/, /ˈaʃən/, /ˈɛ-/, /ˈi-/, /ˈɔː-/

axen

2. (intransitive, transitive, ditransitive) To ask, enquire or question:
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[1], published c. 1410, Matheu 7:7-8, page 3v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     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

     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.

   1. To formulate or proffer a question or query.
   2. To ask for a response (to a question or query).
   3. To request knowledge or information.
      • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[2], published c. 1410, Coꝛinthis ·i· 14:35, page 66v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

        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

        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.

   4. To ask for a favour or reward; to supplicate.
   5. To pray for something; to supplicate a divinity.
3. (transitive) To look for something; to attempt to find something:
   1. To search for an object, place, or person.
   2. To search for recommendations or information.
4. (ambitransitive, ditransitive) To want or require (something or someone).
5. (ambitransitive, ditransitive) To command or require (someone to do something).
6. (transitive) To trial or examine (something)
7. (rare, ambitransitive) To acquire knowledge through examination.
8. (rare, transitive) To endeavour to do (something).
9. (rare, transitive) To aim to visit a location.
10. (rare, transitive) To have a tendency towards a certain way or direction.

• asker
• askynge

• English: ask (dialectal ax, axe, aks)
• Scots: ask, as, ax
• Yola: ishe

• “asken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

axen

1. alternative form of asshen (“ash-coloured”)

axen

1. definite plural of ax