wrek
Middle English
Alternative forms
- wrekke, wrecke
- wrec, wrech (Early Middle English)
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman wrek, itself borrowed from Old Norse *vrek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wrɛk/
Noun
wrek (plural wreks)
Descendants
- English: wreck
References
- “wrek, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse *vrek, related to reka (“to push, drive”).
Noun
wrek oblique singular, m (oblique plural wres, nominative singular wres, nominative plural wrek)
References
- Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “wrec”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
- wrek on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub