Vrouwelijk

Rache

Betekenis

Concepten

(Engels)

revenge; vengeance

Frequentie

Basel-Landschaft

raach

Basel-Landschaft

rooch

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Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈraxə/

Overgenomen van Middelhoogduits

Overgenomen van Oudhoogduits

Verwant aan Engels

Verwant aan 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).