To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
To come to an accounting; to draw up or settleaccounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
From Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian and ġerecenian; both from Proto-West Germanic *rekanōn, from Proto-West Germanic *rekan, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-.
Cognate with Scots rekkin ("to ennumerate, mention, narrate, rehearse, count, calculate, compute"), Saterland Frisian reekenje, West Frisian rekkenje ("to account, tally, calculate, figure"), Dutch rekenen ("to count, calculate, reckon"), German Low German reken ("to reckon"), German rechnen ("to count, reckon, calculate"), Swedish räkna ("to count, calculate, reckon"), Icelandic reikna ("to calculate"), Latin rectus. See also reck, reach.
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