Mêtî

Rache

Mane

Têgeh

(Îngilîzî)

revenge; vengeance

Pircarînî

Basel-Landschaft (de)

raach

Basel-Landschaft (de)

rooch

Agahiyên ji hêla: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/ˈraxə/

Ji Middle High German mîras hatiye girtin

Ji Old High German mîras hatiye girtin

Hevwate bi îngilîzî

Hevwate bi Middle Low German

In summary

From Middle High German rāche, from Old High German rāhha, from Proto-West Germanic *wrāku, from Proto-Germanic *wrēkō (“persecution, revenge”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“to drive”). Cognate with archaic English wreak (“revenge”). The irregular short vowel in modern German is due to the inherited short vowel in the verb rächen, reinforced by a spelling pronunciation among Low German speakers (who based on their Middle Low German wrāke could not know whether the High German vowel should be long or short; compare the reverse development in Lache).