reckoning

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Oddly enough, reckoning is also done in this manner in the Basque language, which is considered to be unrelated to any other known language.

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  1. noun The act of counting or computing.
  2. noun An itemized bill or statement of a sum due.
  3. noun A settlement of accounts: a day of reckoning.
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  1. Early modern English also reckning; from Middle English rekeninge, rekninge, rekning, recning (=D. rekening, a bill, account, reckoning, =Middle Low German rekeninge =Old High German rechenunga, Middle High German rechenunge, German rechnung =Swedish räkning =Danish regning. a reckoning, a computation); verbal noun of reckon, v.
 

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