answeren

• answere, andswaren, answaren, answerye, ansuerie, anndswerenn, onsware, andsweriȝen, onswerie, ondswerie, onswerien, ounsweren, andswerien

From Old English andswerian (from Proto-Germanic *andaswarjaną) and Old English andswarian (from Proto-Germanic *andaswarōną); equivalent to and- +‎ swaren or answere +‎ -en.

• IPA^(key): /an(d)ˈswɛːrən/, /an(d)ˈswaːrən/

answeren

1. To answer or respond; to offer a response:
   1. To give an explanation or justification to a question.
   2. To provide a legal defense; to justify oneself in the courtroom.
   3. (Christianity) To summarise one's doings at the Final Judgement.
   4. (rare) To counter a claim or question; to give refutation.
   5. (rare) To provide one's choice as a response.
2. To be held to account or answerable for one's actions.
3. To match, be equivalent or fit in number; to be of the same number as something else.
4. To match, be equivalent or fit in kind; to be fitting or proper.
5. To be opposite or against; to oppose or counteract its opposite.
6. (rare, of crops) To net; to provide livelihood or sustenance.
7. (rare) To help, assist or aid (i.e. to answer a plea for aid)
8. (rare) To accept responsibility or culpability for another.
9. (rare) To be responsible for legal defense of oneself.
10. (rare) To pay a tariff or fee on goods.

• misansweren

• English: answer
• Scots: answer

• “answēren, -ien (v.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-05.