An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/begehren

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begehren, verb, ‘to desire, crave, request, from the equivalent Middle High German begërn, chiefly in the simple form gërn, Old High German gërôn; the r probably belongs to the stem, because gern as a no-participle points in that direction; compare gern, Gier.