wrek
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Anglo-Norman wrek, itself borrowed from Old Norse *vrek.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editwrek (plural wreks)
Descendants
edit- English: wreck
References
edit- “wrek, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Old Norse *vrek, related to reka (“to push, drive”).
Noun
editwrek oblique singular, m (oblique plural wres, nominative singular wres, nominative plural wrek)
References
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (wrec)
- wrek on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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