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reck

Pronunciation: /ɹɛk/

The English word “reck” has 6 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To take account of (someone or something); to care for; to consider, to heed, to regard.
  2. To want (to do something); to desire to, to be inclined to, to care to.
  3. To know about, to know of, to be aware of.
  4. To reckon, to consider, to regard (someone or something) as.
  5. To concern (someone); to be important or of interest to; to matter.
  6. To concern oneself, to trouble oneself.

Etymology

From Middle English recken, rekken, reken, from Old Norse rœkja (compare Old English rēċċan, rēċan (“to care, reck, take care of, be interested in, care for, desire”); whence English retch), from Proto-Germanic *rōkijaną (“to care, take care”), from Proto-Indo-European *rēǵ-, *rēg- (“to care, help”). Cognate with obsolete Dutch roeken, Low German roken, ruken (“to reck, care”), German geruhen…

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