English
reckon
Reckon comes from Middle English rekenen.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500rekenen
- Englishearliest quotation 1611reckon
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500rekenen
- Englishearliest quotation 1611reckon
Earliest quotation: 1611, The Holy Bible, London: […] Robert Barker: “then the priest shall reckon unto him the money…”
A compound of recenian ‘to pay’ + ġerecenian ‘to explain, recount, relate’
Proto-West Germanic *rekan ‘right, proper, straight’
Proto-West Germanic *rekanōn ‘to count, explain’
Old English recenian ‘to pay’
Proto-West Germanic *rekan ‘right, proper, straight’
Proto-West Germanic *rekanōn ‘to count, explain’
Old English recenian ‘to arrange, dispose, reckon’
Old English ġerecenian ‘to explain, recount, relate’
Every English word from Middle English rekenen
Today it means
verb To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English rekenen / reckon