different between trake vs wrake

English

Noun

trake (plural trakes)

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of trach
   • 2001, John Barnes and Buzz Aldrin, The Return, Tor/Forge, ?ISBN, page 41,

     "[…] I'll do a trake on him, right now, because his breathing isn't good and I think there's a crushing injury to the neck. […]"

   • 2004, Christopher Young, Anno Domini Book III Amalgamation, Lulu Press, Inc., ?ISBN, page 150,

     "[…] She'll never be able to talk again, and for now she is breathing out of a trake."

   • 2005, Isaiah Baity, Jr., Beyond the Mark of Cain, Trafford Publishing, ?ISBN, page 60,

     Over time my uncle continued to slowly get better but my aunt was concerned about the tracheotomy hole (trake) in his throat. […] ¶ […] My aunt anxiously tried to instruct her to put the trake back in the hole in his throat.

Anagrams

• Akter, kerat-, taker, tarek

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

trake m (definite singular trakeen, indefinite plural trakeer, definite plural trakeene)

1. alternative spelling of traké

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

trake m (definite singular trakeen, indefinite plural trakear, definite plural trakeane)

1. alternative spelling of traké

English

Etymology

From Middle English wrake (“vengeance, persecution, injury”), from Old English wracu (“revenge, persecution, misery, etc.”), from Proto-Germanic *wrak?, likely related to *wr?k? (“persecution, revenge, vengeance”). Cognate with Gothic ???????????????????? (wraka, “persecution”), Middle Low German wrake and Middle Dutch wrake.

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?k, IPA^(key): /?e?k/, [?e??k?]
• Rhymes: -e?k

Noun

wrake (plural wrakes)

1. (obsolete, archaic, literary) Suffering which comes as a result of vengeance or retribution.
2. Obsolete form of wrack.

Related terms

• wrakedom ("vengeance")
• wrakeful ("revengeful")

References

• A Middle-English Dictionary: Containing Words Used by English Writers from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary - wrake

Anagrams

• kewra, waker, wreak