reck

Meaning

1. (archaic, transitive) To take account of (someone or something); to care for; to consider, to heed, to regard.
2. (archaic, catenative) To want (to do something); to desire to, to be inclined to, to care to.
3. (archaic, intransitive, with-of) To know about, to know of, to be aware of.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To reckon, to consider, to regard (someone or something) as.
5. (ambitransitive, archaic, dialectal) To concern (someone); to be important or of interest to; to matter.
6. (dialectal, obsolete, reflexive) To concern oneself, to trouble oneself.

Synonyms

look after

mind

beware

care

care for

heed

listen

look at

look out

notice

nurse

see about

see to

service

take care

take note

tend

watch

⌚

watch out

cater for

advert

be mindful

attend

Translations

προσέχω

φροντίζω

preocupar-se

importar-se

dikkat göstermek

ehemmiyeti olmak

ehemmiyet vermek

إرع

önemsemek

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɛk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: recken

Cognate with Old English: rēċċan

Cognate with English: retch

Cognate with Dutch: roeken

Cognate with Low German: roken

Cognate with German: geruhen

Cognate with Icelandic: rækja

Cognate with Danish: røgte

Cognate with Swedish: rykta

In summary

From Middle English recken, rekken, reken, from Old Norse rœkja (compare Old English rēċċan, rēċan (“to care, reck, take care of, be interested in, care for, desire”); whence English retch), from Proto-Germanic *rōkijaną (“to care, take care”), from Proto-Indo-European *rēǵ-, *rēg- (“to care, help”). Cognate with obsolete Dutch roeken, Low German roken, ruken (“to reck, care”), German geruhen (“to deign, condescend”), Icelandic rækja (“to care, regard, discharge”), Danish røgte (“to care, tend”), Swedish rykta (“to groom”).