rax

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To stretch; stretch out.
2. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To reach out; reach or attain to.
3. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To extend the hand to; hand or pass something.
4. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive) To perform the act of reaching or stretching; stretch oneself; reach for or try to obtain something
5. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive) To stretch after sleep.

Noun

barracks

Conceptos

alargar

desperezarse

estirarse

Sinónimos

elongate

stretch

Traducciones

tendre

étendre ses membres

s'étirer

tendere

stiracchiarsi

stirarsi

uitrekken

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɹæks/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: raxen

Heredado de inglés antiguo: raxan

Cognado con neerlandés: rekken

Cognado con alemán: recken

Cognado con sueco: räcka

In summary

From Middle English raxen, rasken (“to stretch oneself”), from Old English raxan, racsan (“to stretch oneself after sleep”), probably alteration, with formative s, of Old English rǣċan, ræċċan, reċċan (“to stretch, extend”), from Proto-Germanic *rakjaną (“to stretch”), from Proto-Indo-European *reǵ- (“to make straight”). Related to Dutch rekken (“to stretch”), German recken (“to stretch”), Swedish räcka (“to suffice, reach, pass, last”).