recken

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛkən/, [ˈʁɛkŋ]

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From Middle High German recken, from Old High German recchen, from Proto-West Germanic *rakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *rakjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃roǵéyeti.

recken (weak, third-person singular present reckt, past tense reckte, past participle gereckt, auxiliary haben)

1. (reflexive) to stretch (one's muscles)

Borrowed from Bavarian reckn, ultimatively from Proto-Germanic *hrēkijaną (“to clear one's throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kreg- (“to caw, crow”). Cognate with English retch, Icelandic hrækja (“to hawk, spit”), Limburgish räöke (“to induce vomiting”). Also related with Rachen (“throat”).

recken (weak, third-person singular present reckt, past tense reckte, past participle gereckt, auxiliary haben)

1. (Austria, transitive, impersonal, colloquial) to retch, to gag

   Mich reckt es, wenn ich nur daran denke. ― I retch just thinking about it.

   Bei dem Kanalgeruch hat es jeden gereckt. ― The smell of that sewer made everyone gag.

• “recken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “recken” in Duden online

From Old Dutch *recken, from Proto-West Germanic *rakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *rakjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃roǵéyeti.

recken

1. to stretch, to reach out (of limbs)
2. to stretch
3. to govern, to control

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: rekken
• Limburgish: rèkke

• “recken”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “recken (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I