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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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”).
Noun
raik (plural raiks) (Northern England, Scotland)
- (also figurative) A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:journey
- The movement of animals while grazing.
- The pastureland over which animals graze; a range, a stray.
- (Scotland) A journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported.
Verb
raik (third-person singular simple present raiks, present participle raiking, simple past and past participle raiked)
- (intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To walk; to roam, to wander.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:walk
- (intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) Of animals (especially sheep): to graze.
- (transitive, chiefly Scotland) To roam or wander through (somewhere).
Etymology 2
See rake (noun) (etymology 4).
Noun
raik (plural raiks)
- (Scotland) Alternative spelling of rake (“rate of progress; pace, speed”)
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