Where does “rakish” come from?
Rakish comes from English rake, from Middle English raken, from Old English racian and raca, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₃reǵ- meaning to stretch or straighten.
rakish (English): Dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly...
Definitions
- Dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly...
Ancestry of “rakish”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | rake | A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed... |
| 2 | English | rakehell | Immoral; dissolute; A lewd or wanton person; a... |
| 3 | English | hell | A place or situation of great suffering in life;... |
| 4 | Middle English | helle | — |
| 5 | Old English | hell | hell |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | hallju | the netherworld, the underworld, hell |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | haljō | the netherworld, the underworld, hell |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱel- | to cover; to incline |
Words derived from “rakish”