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Rec exile, unfortunate wretch,’ whence wretch. These interesting West cognates implying  *wrakja are connected with ,  wrikan, ‘to persecute.’   has a somewhat similar development.  ,, ‘to stretch, rack, reach forth,’ from ręcken,  ręcchen, ‘to stretch out, extend,’ corresponding to  rekken, ‘to stretch out,’ whence  to rack is borrowed,  uf-rakjan, ‘to stretch out,’ to which  rahtôn, ‘to proffer.’ From  is derived  recare, ‘to bring.’ The assumed direct connection between the common   and  rikan, ‘to collect,’  ‘to scrape together,’ must on account of the meaning be abandoned in favour of its relation to  rążau, rążyti, ‘to stretch,’  por-rigo, ‘I stretch,’ and  ὀρέγειν, ‘to stretch.’  ,, ‘speech, discourse, oration,’ from ręde,  rędia, ręda, , ‘account, speech and reply, speech, narrative, information’; corresponding to  ręðia, , ‘account,’  raþjô, , ‘account, bill, number’; to this is allied  garaþjan, ‘to count,’ and further the phonetic equivalent  ratio, ‘computation, account, number,’ &c. From the same root raþ (pre- rat), signifying ‘number,’  (which see) is derived. —  ,, ‘to speak, talk, converse,’ from the  ręden,  rędiôn, rędôn, also  rędinôn, just as in the case of  rędia the  variant rędina occurs (  ręðion, ‘to speak’); from this  rędinôn, is derived  rędinâri,  rędenœre,  , ‘orator.’ ,, ‘honest, candid,’ from rędelîch, ‘eloquent, intelligent, upright, sturdy,’  rędilîh, ‘intelligent’; allied to  rędia,  ręde, ‘understanding, account.’ See.   (1.),, ‘dosser, framework of staves for carrying on the back,’ from the  rëf, ,  rëf, , for earlier  *hrip;   hrip, , ‘wooden frame for carrying coals or peat,’  and  rip, ‘fish-basket.’ To the assumption that the word is  akin to  corbis, ‘basket,’ there is no phonetic objection (see  and ), yet the  variants seem to imply a  primary form *hrëfo-.

' (2.),, also ', , ‘reef,’ only, a nautical term borrowed from  ;   and  reef, also  reven, ‘to reef a sail.’ It is noteworthy that in  rif'', ‘rib,’ is used in the same sense. rifa, ‘to tack together,’ is probably most closely connected with the cognates.  ,, ‘to hatchel hemp or flax,’ from reffen (a variant of ), ‘to tug, pluck.’ The  sense is probably based on a  word. repel, ‘breaking flax,’ repelen, ‘to break flax,’ ripple, ‘hatchel.’ ,, ‘astir, lively, active,’ only; see.  ,, ‘rule, regulation, principle,’ from rëgel, rëgele,  rëgula, , ‘rule, especially of an order’; borrowed in this latter sense during the  period when the monastic system was adopted (see , , , and ), from  rëgula, pronounced rĕgula in  ( ê would be changed into  î, see , , and ). This pronunciation is also implied by rĕgul,, and  riule, ‘rule’ ( rule, from  reule, is derived from  reule,  regula).   ,, from the  rëgen,  rëgan, , ‘rain’; common to  in the same sense;  the corresponding  rign, ,  regn, ,  rëgn, ,  rain,  regen,  rëgan. Primit, regna-, from pre- *reghno-, probably represents *mreghno-, if the word be connected with  βρέχειν (for μρεχ-, μβρεχ-), ‘to wet’;  rĭgare, ‘to water, wet,’ may belong to the same Aryan root mregh, The compound  is found in all the  languages;  rëgenboge,  rëganbogo (, however, waterboog),  rainbow, from  rëgnboga,  regnboge,  *rìgnbuga.  ,, ‘to stir up, move, excite,’ from ręgen, ‘to cause to project, set up, excite, move, awaken,’ a factitive of  rëgen, ‘to rise, tower,’ hence  allied to. Akin also to rœhe, ‘rigid, stiff.’ The  root rag, rē̆h, of these cognates has not yet been found in the allied languages. See.  ,, ‘roe, deer,’ from the  rêck ( rêhes),  rêf ( rêhes), ; the stem raiha- is common to ;   ree,  râhdeór,  roe,  rá;  *ráih is by chance not recorded. Allied also to and  rêho,  (like  râ,, from *râha), ‘roe,’ and reia ( rœ̂ge). , ‘caprea’; for another form see. raiha- from 