answere
Middle English
/ˈan(d)ˌswɛːr(ə)/
noun
Definitions
- A response to a query or questioning; an answering.
- The answer for a problem or challenge; a solving.
- A decision or response coming from a deity or divinity.
- A legal defence or the privilege of being able to mount one.
- (rare) A reply to a point; a counterpoint or countering.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English andswaru (answer) inherited from *andaswaru inherited from Proto-Germanic *andaswarō affix from Middle English sware.
Origin
Middle English
sware
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- answer English
- answer print English
- answerability English
- answerable English
- answerer English
- answerest English
- answereth English
- answering English
- answerless English
- answerphone English
- autoanswer English
- foreanswer English
- misanswer English
- multianswer English
- nonanswer English
- reanswer English
- *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European
- *swer- Proto-Indo-European
- *andaswarō Proto-Germanic
- andswaru Old English
- andswerian Old English
- swaru Old English
- answeren Middle English
- answeryng Middle English
- misansweren Middle English
- onsware Middle English
- sware Middle English
- swaren Middle English
- andsvar Old Norse
- esquarre Old French
- *andaswaru gmw-pro
- andswor Old Saxon
- ansa Tok Pisin