cry

English

/kɹaɪ̯/

verb
Definitions
  • (intransitive) To shed a shed tears; to weep.
  • (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
  • (ambitransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
  • (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
  • (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
  • To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, etc.
  • Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English crien derived from Old French crier (shout, proclaim, cry out, cry, scream, announce publicly) derived from Frankish *krītan (cry out, proclaim, shout, scream, cry, publish) derived from Proto-Germanic *krītaną (shout, cry out) derived from Proto-Indo-European *greyd- (shout).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*greyd-

Gloss

shout

Concept
Semantic Field

Speech and language

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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