Standard Lemma guide
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verb
To take account of (someone or something); to care for; to consider, to heed, to regard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
Qualifier: intransitive (usually with of or for)
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verb
To want (to do something); to desire to, to be inclined to, to care to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, catenative
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verb
To know about, to know of, to be aware of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, intransitive, with-of
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verb
To reckon, to consider, to regard (someone or something) as.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
To concern (someone); to be important or of interest to; to matter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, archaic, dialectal
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verb
To concern oneself, to trouble oneself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete, reflexive
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History
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”). See reckon.
