reiken

  • 61Hand — 1. Alle Händ voll to dohne, seggt de ol Zahlmann1, on heft man êne. (Insterburg.) – Frischbier2, 1469. 1) Der Name eines Feldwächters in Insterburg. 2. Alten Händen hilft kein Nagelschminken. – Laus. Magazin, XXX, 251. Russisch Altmann V, 85. 3.… …

    Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon

  • 62reach — [OE] Reach goes back ultimately to a prehistoric West Germanic *raikjan, a word of uncertain origin which also produced German reichen and Dutch reiken. It originally meant ‘stretch out the hand’, and ‘attain’ and ‘arrive at’ are secondary… …

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