reck

来自古英语 reccan,关注，留心，来自 Proto-Germanic*rokijana,关注，留心，来自 PIE*reg,关 心，帮助，可能来自该印欧词根原词义 PIE*reg,拉直，管理，词源同 regulate,regal.

reck (v.)

Old English reccan (2) "take care of, be interested in, care for; have regard to, take heed of; to care, heed; desire (to do something)" (strong verb, past tense rohte, past participle rought), from West Germanic *rokjan, from Proto-Germanic *rokja- (cognates: Old Saxon rokjan, Middle Dutch roeken, Old Norse rækja "to care for," Old High German giruochan "to care for, have regard to," German geruhen "to deign," which is influenced by ruhen "to rest").

And in that very moment, away behind in some courtyard of the City, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of wizardry or war, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn. [J.R.R. Tolkien, "Return of the King," 1955]

The -k- sound is probably a northern influence from Norse. No known cognates outside Germanic. "From its earliest appearance in Eng., reck is almost exclusively employed in negative or interrogative clauses" [OED]. Related: Recked; recking.

reck (n.)

"care, heed, consideration," 1560s, from reck (v.).

1. Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?

粉碎[?]了.为什麽人们不服从他的权威?

2. All comments and articles views are individual, opinions reck not organizations and persons.

所有评论仅代表个人看法, 与任何组织及个人无关.