Where does “rakishly” come from?
rakishly (English) comes from English rakish, from English rake, from English rakehell, from English hell, from Middle English helle, from Old English hell, from Proto-West Germanic hallju, from Proto-Germanic haljō — to cover; to incline.
rakishly (English): In a rakish manner
Definitions
- In a rakish manner
Ancestry of “rakishly”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | rakish | Dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly... |
| 2 | English | rake | A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed... |
| 3 | English | rakehell | Immoral; dissolute; A lewd or wanton person; a... |
| 4 | English | hell | A place or situation of great suffering in life;... |
| 5 | Middle English | helle | Hell the Christian place of damnation |
| 6 | Old English | hell | hell |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | hallju | the netherworld, the underworld, hell |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | haljō | the netherworld, the underworld, hell |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱel- | to cover; to incline |