wrek
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Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman wrek, itself borrowed from Old Norse *vrek.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
wrek (plural wreks)
Descendants[edit]
- English: wreck
References[edit]
- “wrek, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old Norse *vrek, related to reka (“to push, drive”).
Noun[edit]
wrek 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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