reck

Meaning

Verb

• To make account of; to care for; to heed, regard, consider.
• To concern, to be important or earnest.
• To think.

Origin

• From Middle English recken, rekken, reken, from Old Norse rœkja (compare Old English rēċċan, rēċan; whence English retch), from Proto-Germanic *rōkijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *rēǵ-, *rēg-. Cognate with obsolete Dutch roeken, Low German roken, ruken, German geruhen ("to deign, condescend"), Icelandic rækja ("to care, regard, discharge"), Danish røgte ("to care, tend").