gerec

From Proto-West Germanic *garek, equivalent to ġe- +‎ reċċan. Compare Old High German ungireh (“confusion, tumult”).

The sense meaning "tumult" is likely an ellipsis or shortening of unġerec or inġerec.

• IPA^(key): /jeˈrek/

ġerec n (nominative plural ġerecu)

1. rule, government
2. management, direction
3. order
4. a condition of order, a time of quiet
5. explanation, account
6. a tumult

Strong a-stem:

• inġerec (“tumult”)
• unġerec (“tumult”)

• ġerecu f

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ĠEREC”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ĠEREC supplemental input”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.