rauf
See also: Rauf
German edit
Etymology edit
Contraction of herauf.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
rauf
- (colloquial) up, up here, upstairs (towards the speaker)
- Synonym: herauf
- Er kommt jetzt rauf. -- He's coming upstairs now.
- (colloquial) up, up there, upstairs (away from the speaker)
- Synonym: hinauf
- Er geht rauf zu den andern. -- He's going upstairs to the other people.
Usage notes edit
Unlike the standard language, colloquial German does not distinguish the meanings of hinauf (“up there, away from the speaker”) and herauf (“up here, up towards the speaker”). Rauf is used for both meanings.
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “rauf” in Duden online
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
rauf f (genitive singular raufar, nominative plural raufar)
Declension edit
declension of rauf
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
See also edit
Anagrams edit
Old Norse edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *raubō.
Noun edit
rauf f
Derived terms edit
- bakrauf
- gotrauf
- himinraufar
- raufarsteinn (a stone with a hole drilled through it)
- raufartrefjur (a cloth riddled with holes)
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: rauf
- Faroese: reyv
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ræv, rauv
- Norwegian Bokmål: ræv
- Swedish: röv
- Danish: røv
References edit
- “rauf”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Plautdietsch edit
Adverb edit
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