Rækja

Meaning of Old Norse word "rækja"

As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:

Old Norse word rækja can mean:rækja

rækja

1. ð, qs. vrækja, [reka], to reject, refuse; at þér vitið hvat ér skoluð eta, ok hvat ér skoluð rækja, what you shall eat and what reject, Stj. 317; skal hann kenna honum rétta hluti en r. hann eigi, Greg. 27; r. syndir, forsaking the sins, 23; hann fyrirleit ok rækti fórnir hans, 656 A. i. 4; þann ilm skal hverr Kristinn maðr r. er heiðnir menn göra fyrir skurð-goðum, Hom. 53.

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2. t, (i. e. rœkja), [A. S. rêcan, pret. rohte; Engl. reck, reckon; Hel. röcjan; Dan. rögte; Scot. raik]:—to reck, regard, take care of, heed, cultivate; klæði er ér lítt rækit, Am.; skulu vér r. húðföt vár, let us keep to our hammocks, Orkn. 274; ræki ek eigi, hvárt þú rítr …, I reck not, whether, Skálda 161; mun ek eigi rækja (heed) fjár-skaða minn, 655 iii. 2; r. kirkjur, n. G. l. i. 339, FmS. viii. 410; rækja hátíð, Barl. 150; rækja eigi ættmenn sína, FS. 31: to keep a grateful remembrance of, rækti Árni þetta allt saman þegar er hann var biskup orðinn, BS. i. 680: but in mod. usage also in a bad sense, rækja e-ð við e-n, to bear malice.

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☞ By assimilation of æ and œ two sets of words, diametrically opposed in sense, have become identical in form and sound, viz. those from rækja qs. vreka, and those from rækja qs. rœkja, with their derivatives; in olden times they were sounded differently: but when all distinction between them was lost, one of them had to give way; this was rækja from reka, which, with its derivatives, except rækr (rejected), is now obsolete, whereas rækja, i. e. rœkja, with its derivatives, is still in full use.

Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚱᛅᚴᛁᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements