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· Proto-Germanic
*rakjaną
2 English words descend from Proto-Germanic
*rakjaną
, most common first.
rax
To stretch; stretch out.
retch
To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.