ask

• vt.尋ねる、問い合わせる；要求する；必要とする；招待する；交渉する
• 尋ねる、問い合わせる；要求する
• n. （フィンランド語、スウェーデン語で）人の名前を尋ねる。

PIE *ais, hope, wishから。

ask

ask: [OE] The Old English ancestor of ask existed in two main forms: āscian and ācsian. The first produced descendants such as asshe, which died out in the 16th century; the second resulted in axe (still extant in some dialects), which by metathesis – the reversal of the consonant sounds k and s – became modern English ask. Ultimately the word comes from a prehistoric West Germanic verb *aiskōjan (source of German heischen, a poetical term for ‘ask’); cognates in other, non-Germanic, Indo- European languages include Latin aeruscāre ‘beg’ and Sanskrit iccháti ‘seek’.

ask (v.)

Old English ascian "ask, call for an answer; make a request," from earlier ahsian, from Proto-Germanic *aiskon (cognates: Old Saxon escon, Old Frisian askia "request, demand, ask," Middle Dutch eiscen, Dutch eisen "to ask, demand," Old High German eiscon "to ask (a question)," German heischen "to ask, demand"), from PIE *ais- "to wish, desire" (cognates: Sanskrit icchati "seeks, desires," Armenian aic "investigation," Old Church Slavonic iskati "to seek," Lithuanian ie?kau "to seek").

Form in English influenced by a Scandinavian cognate (such as Danish ?ske; the Old English would have evolved by normal sound changes into ash, esh, which was a Midlands and southwestern England dialect form). Modern dialectal ax is as old as Old English acsian and was an accepted literary variant until c. 1600. Related: Asked; asking. Old English also had fregnan/frignan which carried more directly the sense of "question, inquire," and is from PIE root *prek-, the common source of words for "ask" in most Indo-European languages (see pray). If you ask me "in my opinion" is attested from 1910. Asking price is attested from 1755.

1. That was Nicholas 's cue to ask for another chocolate chip cookie.

それはニコラスがチョコレートクッキーをもう1枚欲しがっていることを示している。

2.He was too proud to ask his family for help and support.

彼はプライドが高すぎて、家族に助けと支持を求めたくない。

3.Can I just ask something 'cos I 'm really quite interested in this.

これに本当に興味があるので質問してもいいですか。

4.They try to tease out the answers without appearing to ask .

彼らは黙って答えを出そうとした。

5.We rang Duncan to ask where he was going on holiday.

どこへ休暇に行くのかダンカンに電話した。