rauf

See also: Rauf

German

Etymology

Contraction of herauf.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʁaʊf/
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Adverb

rauf

  1. (colloquial) up, up here, upstairs (towards the speaker)
    Er kommt jetzt rauf. -- He's coming upstairs now.
  2. (colloquial) up, up there, upstairs (away from the speaker)
    Er geht rauf zu den andern. -- He's going upstairs to the other people.

Usage notes

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.

Synonyms
  • (up here): herauf
  • (up there): hinauf

Further reading
  • rauf in Duden online

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse rauf.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /røyːv/
  • Rhymes: -øyːv

Noun

rauf f (genitive singular raufar, nominative plural raufar)

  1. rift, gap, slot

Declension
declension of rauf
f-s1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative rauf raufin raufar raufarnar
accusative rauf raufina raufar raufarnar
dative rauf raufinni raufum raufunum
genitive raufar raufarinnar raufa raufanna

Derived terms

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Old Norse

Noun

rauf f

  1. a gap, a rift, a hole
    Raufar himins.
    The sluices of heaven.

Derived terms
  • bakrauf
  • gotrauf
  • himinraufar
  • raufarsteinn (a stone with a hole drilled through it)
  • raufartrefjur (a cloth riddled with holes)

Descendants
  • Westrobothnian: rauv

References
  • rauf in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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