raik
Meanings
noun
- A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.
- The movement of animals while grazing.
- The pastureland over which animals graze; a range, a stray.
- A journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported.
verb
- To walk; to roam, to wander.
- Of animals (especially sheep): to graze.
- To roam or wander through (somewhere).
noun
- Alternative spelling of rake (“rate of progress; pace, speed”).
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From Middle English rake (“path”), from Old Norse rák (“trail”), from Proto-Germanic *rēkō, *raką, *rakō, *rakǭ (“file of tracks, line”), from Proto-Indo-European *(o)reg'-, *(o)reg'a- (“to straighten, direct”). Cognate with Icelandic rák (“streak, grazing”), Icelandic raka (“strip, series”), Norwegian røk (“grazing”), Norwegian rak (“wick”), Old English race, racu (“a run, riverbed”).
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