Description:

The term 'raka' is a word for 'animal' in Common. It is from Old Common and referred to some kind of specific, large, fierce fictional animal in the Hillbillies screenshow. In High Common it has come to be used as a word for any animal, but the stereotypical referent continues to be something large and fierce, and often but not always predatory.

'Raka' metaphorically extends to the idea of animalisticness, savagery, or monstrosity. Referring to a person that way inplies those qualities, and the idea can also be conveyed with the modifier forn 'rakas'. The word does shade from fearsome to neutral, and the more fearsome aspect can be emphasized with the modifier 'was', as in 'na was raka', 'the monster'.

In formal usage, 'raka' is not used as a verb. However, in slightly more colloquial High Common, it is a vague skurun verb meaning to do something to someone else in a furious or animalistic way. For example:

A spe'n tene raka.
He savaged him.

This expression might be used in describing a fight where the competitor in question has a particularly savage fighting style.

It could also be used as a euphemistic way to talk about having wild sex, either as an antipassive with a conjoined subject, implying they went at it equally, or in the base skurun form which focused on the action of one person towards another.