Meaning

verb have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

verb plead or ask for earnestly

originFrom Middle English craven, from Old English crafian (“to crave, ask, implore, demand, summon”), from Proto-West Germanic *krafōn, from Proto-Germanic *krafjaną (“to demand”). Cognate with Danish kræve (“to demand, require”), Swedish kräva (“to crave, demand”), Icelandic krefja (“to demand”), Norwegian kreve (“to demand”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0