feigner

transitive verb

1. Obsolete to form; shape
2. to make up (a story, excuse, etc.); invent; fabricate
3. to make a false show of; pretend; imitate; simulate
4. Archaic to imagine

Origin: ME feinen < OFr feindre (prp. feignant) < L fingere, to touch, handle, shape: see figure

intransitive verb