different between raik vs raim

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?e?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k
• Homophone: rake

Etymology 1

From Middle English rake (“path”), from Old Norse rák (“trail”), from Proto-Germanic *r?k?, *rak?, *rak?, *rak? (“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

raik (plural raiks) (Northern England, Scotland)

1. (also figuratively) A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus: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.

Alternative forms

• rake

Verb

raik (third-person singular simple present raiks, present participle raiking, simple past and past participle raiked)

1. (intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To walk; to roam, to wander.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:walk

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

Alternative forms

• rake

Etymology 2

See rake (noun) (etymology 4).

Noun

raik (plural raiks)

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

Anagrams

• Arik, Irak, Kari, Kira, Rika, ikra, krai, raki, rika

English

Verb

raim (third-person singular simple present raims, present participle raiming, simple past and past participle raimed)

1. Alternative form of rame

Anagrams

• Amir, Irma, Mair, Mari, Mira, RIMA, amir, mair, rami, rima

Dalmatian

Etymology

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Noun

raim

1. oar

References

• Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

Middle English

Noun

raim

1. Alternative form of raymen

Old French

Alternative forms

• rain, ram, reim, rein

Etymology

From Latin r?mus.

Noun

raim m (oblique plural rains, nominative singular rains, nominative plural raim)

1. branch (of a tree, etc.)

Related terms

• ramel

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (rain)
• raim on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub