rauf

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German

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Etymology

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Contraction of herauf.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʁaʊf/
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Adverb

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rauf

  1. (colloquial) up, up here, upstairs (towards the speaker)
    Synonym: herauf
    Er kommt jetzt rauf. -- He's coming upstairs now.
  2. (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

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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.

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Further reading

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  • rauf” in Duden online

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse rauf.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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rauf f (genitive singular raufar, nominative plural raufar)

  1. rift, gap, slot

Declension

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Derived terms

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See also

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Anagrams

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Old Norse

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *raubō.

Noun

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rauf f

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

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: rauf
  • Faroese: reyv
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: ræv, rauv
  • Norwegian Bokmål: ræv
  • Swedish: röv
  • Danish: røv

References

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

Plautdietsch

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Adverb

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rauf

  1. down, downwards