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misreckoning

verb

Etymology

From misreckon + -ing.

  1. derived from *h₃reǵ-✻ — “to make straight or right”
  2. derived from *rekan✻ — “swift, ready, prompt”
  3. inherited from *rekanōn✻ — “to count, explain”
  4. inherited from recenian — “to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”
  5. inherited from rekenen
  6. formed as misreckon — “mis- + reckon”
  7. suffixed as misreckoning — “misreckon + ing”

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of misreckon

  2. A false reckoning

    A false reckoning; a miscalculation.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA