Reck
/rɛk/noun
To care about or take notice of something; now chiefly in negative or archaic use.
Did you know?Reck comes from the same ancient Germanic root as German rechnen (“to calculate”), so the idea behind it was originally not just caring, but mentally “counting” something as worth your attention.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*rekaną
“to care, heed, consider”
Old English
OE
reccan
“to care about, heed, take notice of”
Middle English
ME
reken
“to care, mind, be concerned with”
Modern English
English
reck
“to care; usually in the negative phrase ‘I don’t reck’ or in archaic usage”