name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
Runkle
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CMU ARPABET: R AH1 NG K AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A wrinkle or crease.
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verb
Meaning 3
To wrinkle or crease.
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Usage: ambitransitive
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History
Etymology
From Middle English runkel (“wrinkle, crease”). Cognate with Scots runkil (“wrinkle, crease”). Of uncertain origin, perhaps from a diminutive ( + -le) of Old Norse *hrunka, hrukka (“wrinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkwǭ (“wrinkle”). The verb is from Middle English runklen (“to wrinkle”), from the noun. Compare also Old Swedish rynkia (whence Swedish rynka (“to wrinkle”)).