Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Something or someone that has been ruined. · The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down. · An event in which something is damaged through collision. · A shipwreck: an event in which a ship is heavily damaged or destroyed.
To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless. · To ruin or dilapidate. · To plunder goods from wrecked ships. · To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.
Etymology tree Old Norse *vrek Anglo-Norman wrekbor. Middle English wrek English wreck From Middle English wrek, from Anglo-Norman wrek, from Old Norse *wrek (whence Norwegian rek, Icelandic rek, Swedish vrak, Danish vrag), from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną (“to pursue”, whence Old English wrecan (English wreak), Old Saxon wrekan, Old High German rëhhan, Gothic 𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (wrikan)), from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“to track; to hunt; to follow”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionwrekenm
- Cognate mentionrekno
- Cognate mentionrekis
- Cognate mentionvraksv
- Cognate mentionvragda
- Derivation mention*wreknon
- Cognate mentionwrecanang
- Cognate mentionwreaken
- Cognate mentionwrekanosx
- Cognate mentionrëhhangoh
- Cognate mention𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽got
- Derivation mention*wrekanągem-pro · to pursue
- Derivation mention*wreg-ine-pro · to track; to hunt; to follow
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