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German
Etymology
Contraction of herauf.
Pronunciation
Adverb
rauf
- (colloquial) up, up here, upstairs (towards the speaker)
- Synonym: herauf
- Er kommt jetzt rauf. -- He's coming upstairs now.
- (colloquial) up, up there, upstairs (away from the speaker)
- Synonym: hinauf
- Er geht rauf zu den andern. -- He's going upstairs to the other people.
Usage notes
Unlike the standard language, colloquial German does not distinguish the meanings of hinauf (“up there, away from the speaker”) and herauf (“up here, up towards the speaker”). Rauf is used for both meanings.
Further reading
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse rauf.
Pronunciation
Noun
rauf f (genitive singular raufar, nominative plural raufar)
- rift, gap, slot
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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *raubō.
Noun
rauf f
- a gap, a rift, a hole
Raufar himins.- The sluices of heaven.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “rauf”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Plautdietsch
Adverb
rauf
- down, downwards