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raik

UK/ɹeɪk/

raik noun: a walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey. Also the alternative spelling of rake.

Noun

raik (plural raiks)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, also, figuratively) A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.
    Synonyms:
    fare, journey, sith, trip
  2. (Northern England, Scotland) The movement of animals while grazing.
  3. (Northern England, Scotland) The pastureland over which animals graze; a range, a stray.
  4. (Northern England, 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)

  1. (Midlands, Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To walk; to roam, to wander.
  2. (Midlands, Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) Of animals (especially sheep): to graze.
  3. (Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To roam or wander through (somewhere).

Also used as

raik is also the alternative spelling of rake.

Synonyms of raik

All synonyms of raik

Forms of raik

Noun
pluralraiks
alternative formrake
Verb
third-person singular presentraiks
present participleraiking
past participleraiked
pastraiked

Origin of raik

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”).

See rake (noun) (etymology 4).

Words that rhyme with raik

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Questions about raik

What does raik mean?
Raik means a walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.
What part of speech is raik?
Raik can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce raik?
Raik is pronounced /ɹeɪk/ (UK).
What is the plural of raik?
The plural of raik is raiks.

Words near raik in the dictionary

  1. Raigoza
  2. Raigozas
  3. Raihanul
  4. RAII
  5. Raijin
  6. raik
  7. raiked
  8. Raikes
  9. Raikeses
  10. raiking
  11. Raikkonen

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