rax

Significado (Inglês)

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

Sinônimos

elongate

stretch

Traduções

tendre

étendre ses membres

s'étirer

tendere

stiracchiarsi

stirarsi

uitrekken

alargar

desperezarse

estirarse

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɹæks/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: raxen

Herdado de inglês arcaico: raxan

Cognato com holandês: rekken

Cognato com alemão: recken

Cognato com 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”).