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Reckon Sense German Dutch I Count Proto Germanic Straight

正面 8683.reckon
英 ['rek(ə)n]美 ['rɛkən]

背面
释义:
vt. 测算,估计;认为;计算vi. 估计;计算;猜想,料想
例句:
1. I reckon I'm due one of my travels.我想我就要开始我的一次旅行了.

1. dig + it => digit => 挖它 => 用爪子挖它.2. 因为咱们的先人、古人在计数、数数时最初都是用手指来计数、数数的。3. Digit:第几头。远古人使用数字是为了知道自己的牲畜有几头,不会算了只能用指头数----手指,足趾,数字,数码。
reckon 料想,估计来自 Proto-Germanic*rakina,想好的,直接的,来自 PIE*reg,拉直,管理,词源同 regulate,right. 引申词义料想,估计。
reckonreckon: [OE] Reckon originally meant ‘give a list of, enumerate, tell’. The sense ‘count’ had developed by the 13th century, and ‘estimate, consider’ emerged in the 14th century. It comes ultimately from a prehistoric West Germanic *rekenōjan, which also produced German rechnen ‘count’ and Dutch rekenen.reckon (v.)c. 1200, recenen, from Old English gerecenian "to explain, relate, recount," from Proto-Germanic *(ga)rekenojan (cognates: Old Frisian rekenia, Middle Dutch and Dutch rekenen, Old High German rehhanon, German rechnen, Gothic rahnjan "to count, reckon"), from Proto-Germanic *rakina- "ready, straightforward," from PIE *reg- "to move in a straight line," with derivatives meaning "direct in a straight line, rule" (see regal). Intransitive sense "make a computation" is from c. 1300. In I reckon, the sense is "hold an impression or opinion," and the expression, used parenthetically, dates from c. 1600 and formerly was in literary use (Richardson, etc.), but came to be associated with U.S. Southern dialect and was regarded as provincial or vulgar. Related: Reckoned; reckoning."

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