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Proto-Indo-European
Root
*wreyḱ-[1]
- to twist
- to bend
Derived terms
Template:PIE root see
- *wréyḱ-e-ti (thematic root present)
- Proto-Balto-Slavic:
- Proto-Germanic: *wrīhaną
- *wriḱ-yé-ti (zero-grade ye-present)
- *wreyḱ-eh₂
- Proto-Balto-Slavic:
- Proto-Italic: *reikā
- *wriḱ-nó-s
- Proto-Hellenic: *wriknós
- Ancient Greek: ῥικνός (rhiknós, “crooked, shriveled”)
- *wréyḱ-ō ~ *wriḱ-n-és
- *wreyḱ-o-s
- *wróyḱ-o-s
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN