raik
See also: ráik
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ɹeɪk/
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪk
- Homophone: rake
Etymology 1
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”).
Noun
raik (plural raiks) (Northern England, Scotland)
- (also figurative) A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:journey
- The movement of animals while grazing.
- The pastureland over which animals graze; a range, a stray.
- (Scotland) A journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported.
Alternative forms
Verb
raik (third-person singular simple present raiks, present participle raiking, simple past and past participle raiked)
- (intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To walk; to roam, to wander.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:walk
- (intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) Of animals (especially sheep): to graze.
- (transitive, chiefly Scotland) To roam or wander through (somewhere).
Alternative forms
Etymology 2
See rake (noun) (etymology 4).
Noun
raik (plural raiks)
Anagrams
Polish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈra.ik/
- Rhymes: -aik
- Syllabification: ra‧ik
Noun
raik m inan
- diminutive of raj (“paraside; heaven”)
- 1873, Teodor Tomasz Jeż, Emancypowana [Emancipated][1], Warszawa: A. Kowalski, published 1873, page 62, lines 7–9:
- Urządzony on był wygodnie i gustownie, nakształt raiku pełnego woni i owych sprzęcików do niczego, co noszą nazwę brimboryjonów (fraszek).
- It was furnished comfortably and tastefully, like a paradise full of scents and those useless gadgets called brimborions (trifles).
- 1882–1883, Eliza Orzeszkowa, “Bańka mydlana: Obrazek miejski (II.) [Soap Bubble: City Picture (2.)]”, in Z różnych sfer [From different spheres], Warszawa: S[alezy]. Lewental, published 1886, page 314, lines 1–2:
- jesteś czarodziejką, Paulo! z niczego prawdziwy raik zrobiłaś
- you are a magician, Paula! you have made a real paradise out of nothing
- 1955, Gotfryd Keller, translated by Czermakowa, Izabela, Zielony Henryk. Powieść [Green Henry. A Novel][2], volumes 1–2, quoted in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego, Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, published 1955, archived from the original on 25 July 2022:
- Jak wiesz — rozkwita raik dusz,
- As you know — the paradise of souls is blooming,
- 1960, Tadeusz Breza, Urząd [Office][3], quoted in Słownik języka polskiego pod redakcją Witolda Jana Doroszewskiego, Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, published 1961, page 9:
- Jestem […] w malutkiej włoskiej restauracji, kolorowym, pełnym jakichś zabytków raiku.
- I am […] in a tiny Italian restaurant, a colorful paradise full of monuments.
Declension
Declension of raik
singular | plural | |
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nominative | raik | raiki |
genitive | raiku | raików |
dative | raikowi | raikom |
accusative | raik | raiki |
instrumental | raikiem | raikami |
locative | raiku | raikach |
vocative | raiku | raiki |
Further reading
- raik in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- raik in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1912), “raik”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw, page 467
- “raik”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish], 2022