rike

Meanings

Noun

• sovereignty, dominion, authority
• The territory over which authority extends, a kingdom, an earldom, a diocese, district, city, and so forth.

Verb

• Pronunciation spelling of like

Origin

• From Middle English rike, From Old Norse ríki, from Proto-Germanic *rīkiją, from Proto-Germanic *rīks, an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Cognate with Danish rige, Dutch rijk, German Reich and Swedish rike.
• Results from the difficulty of pronouncing the phoneme /l/ for L1 speakers of many Far East languages.