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racu

Pronunciation: /ˈrɑ.ku/

“racu” is an Old English word. Its 7 meanings in English:

noun

  1. explanation
  2. argument, reasoning
  3. logic, reason
  4. narrative
  5. rhetoric
  6. comedy
  7. rake

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *raku, from Proto-Germanic *rakō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, direct, make right”). Akin to Old High German rahha (“affair, cause, reason, account”).

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