rash
English
/ɹæʃ/
adj
Definitions
- Acting too quickly without considering the risks and consequences; not careful; hasty.
- So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
- (obsolete) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
- (obsolete) Fast-acting.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English rash inherited from Old English *ræsc inherited from Proto-Germanic *raskaz derived from Proto-Indo-European *ret- (roll, run).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ret-
Gloss
roll, run
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
走
Emoji
🥐 📃 🗞️ 🙄 🤣
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- guard English
- overrash English
- overrashly English
- rasher English
- rashful English
- rashguard English
- rashie English
- rashless English
- rashlike English
- rashling English
- rashly English
- rashness English
- rashy English
- raski Finnish
- rota Latin
- rascar Spanish, Castilian
- *ret- Proto-Indo-European
- *raskaz Proto-Germanic
- rask Swedish
- *ræsc Old English
- rash Middle English
- rǫskr Old Norse
- röskur Icelandic
- rascar Old Spanish