raken

• IPA^(key): /ˈraːkə(n)/

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• Rhymes: -aːkən

From Middle Dutch rāken, from Old Dutch *racon, from Proto-West Germanic *rakōn.

raken

1. (transitive) to touch
2. (transitive) to hit (to not miss)
3. (copulative) to become

   Ze raakte ongewenst zwanger. ― She unintentionally became pregnant.

• Afrikaans: raak
• Negerhollands: raak, rak
• → Papiamentu: raka, raak, raká

By surface analysis, raak (“rake”) +‎ -en, but compare English rake, Swedish raka. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

raken

1. (dialectal) to rake

   Synonyms: harken, rakelen

• anker, karne

From Old Dutch *racon, from Proto-West Germanic *rakōn.

rāken

1. to touch
2. to reach
3. to acquire
4. to hit (not miss)

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• misrāken

• Dutch: raken

• “raken”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “raken (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

• rakyn

Borrowed from Old Norse raka, from Proto-Germanic *raką.

• IPA^(key): /ˈraːkən/

raken

1. to rake

• English: rake
• Yola: raak

• “rāken, v.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.