rike · verb1
Results from the difficulty of pronouncing the phoneme /l/ for L1 speakers of many Far East languages.
Rike · proper noun2
- German · derived fromReich
- Old Norse · derived fromríki“power, rule, realm”
- English todayRike
From the Norwegian surname, from Old Norse ríki (“power, rule, realm”). Also an Americanized variant of German Reich.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.