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reck.

To take account of (someone or something); to care for; to consider, to heed, to regard.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/ɹɛk/
  1. To take account of (someone or something); to care for; to consider, to heed, to regard.

    archaic · transitive
  2. To want (to do something); to desire to, to be inclined to, to care to.

    archaic · catenative
  3. To know about, to know of, to be aware of.

    archaic · intransitive · with-of
  4. To reckon, to consider, to regard (someone or something) as.

    obsolete · transitive
  5. To concern (someone); to be important or of interest to; to matter.

    ambitransitive · archaic · dialectal
    It recks not!
  6. To concern oneself, to trouble oneself.

    dialectal · obsolete · reflexive
Where this word comes from

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 (“to deign, condescend”), Icelandic rækja (“to care, regard, discharge”), Danish røgte (“to care, tend”), Swedish rykta (“to groom”). See reckon.

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