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raik

raik

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English

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Noun

raik ‎(plural raiks)

  1. (in Scotland and Northern England) A walk, or a journey taken on foot; the movement of animals while grazing; the pastureland over which animals graze

Verb

raik ‎(third-person singular simple present raiks, present participle raiking, simple past and past participle raiked)

  1. (in Scotland and Northern England) To walk; to graze

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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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