reckon

English

/ˈɹɛkən/

verb
Definitions
  • To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
  • To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
  • To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
  • (colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
  • To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host
  • (intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
  • To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English rekenen inherited from Old English recenian (pay, dispose, arrange, reckon) inherited from Proto-Germanic *rekanōną (explain, count), *rekanaz (ready, proper, in order, correct, prompt, swift) derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (straighten, direct, right, straight, right oneself, just, make right, king, chief, direct oneself, line, make straight right).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*h₃reǵ-

Gloss

straighten, direct, right, straight, right oneself, just, make right, king, chief, direct oneself, line, make straight right

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