raik

Etymology 1

From Middle English rake (“path”), from Old Norse rák (“trail”), from Proto-Germanic *rēkō, *raką, *rakō, *rakǭ (“file of tracks, line”), from Proto-Indo-European *(o)reg'-, *(o)reg'a- (“to straighten, direct”). Cognate with Icelandic rák (“streak, grazing”), Icelandic raka (“strip, series”), Norwegian røk (“grazing”), Norwegian rak (“wick”), Old English race, racu (“a run, riverbed”).

noun

1. (also figurative) A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.
2. The movement of animals while grazing.
3. The pastureland over which animals graze; a range, a stray.
4. (Scotland) A journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported.

verb

1. (intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To walk; to roam, to wander.
2. (intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) Of animals (especially sheep): to graze.
3. (transitive, chiefly Scotland) To roam or wander through (somewhere).

Etymology 2

See rake (noun) (etymology 4).

noun

1. (Scotland) Alternative spelling of rake (“rate of progress; pace, speed”)