Roke vs Rike - What's the difference?
roke | rike |
(UK, dialect) mist; smoke; damp
(UK, dialect) A vein of ore.
(historical) sovereignty, dominion, authority
* {{quote-book
, year=1820
, year_published=2007
, edition=Digitized
, author=Arthur Taylor
, title=The Glory of Regality
(historical) The territory over which authority extends, a kingdom, an earldom, a diocese, district, city, and so forth.
* {{quote-book
, year=1823
, year_published=2007
, edition=Digitized
, editor=David Scot
, author=Alexander Murray
, title=History of the European Languages
* {{quote-book
, year=1857
, year_published=2009
, edition=Digitized
, editor=John Gough Nichols
, author=Edward VI (King of England)
, title=Literary Remains of King Edward the Sixth
(Oriental)
As nouns the difference between roke and rike
is that roke is mist; smoke; damp while rike is sovereignty, dominion, authority.As a verb rike is
eye dialect of like.roke
English
Alternative forms
* roak, rook, roukNoun
(en noun)- (Halliwell)
rike
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)citation, genre=Coronations , page=5 , passage=king-rike was in use amongst us so late as the reign of Elizabeth. }}
citation, publisher=A. Constable & Co. , page=480 , passage=RAUMARICAE and RAUGNARICH are the people of the kingdom (RIKE ) of RAUMAR and RAUGNAR. }}
citation, page=464 , passage=The bishop (Tunstal) of Durham was deprived of his bishop-rike . }}