Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A painful muscular spasm in the neck or back
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo twist; turn · To wrench; strain
From Middle English wricken, probably from Middle Dutch wricken (Modern Dutch wrikken (“to wriggle”)) or Middle Low German wricken (“to move jerkily; sprain”), from Proto-Germanic *wrigōną (“to wriggle”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (“to turn, wrap, tie”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”). See also Low German wriggen, German Low German wricken (“to row; scull; move back and forth”)). Compare also Danish vrikke (“to move; turn; wriggle”), Swedish vricka (“to sprain; twist; scull”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "wricken"
},
"expansion": "Middle English wricken"
},
{
"name": "der",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dum",
"3": "wricken"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch wricken"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "wrikken",
"3": "",
"4": "to wriggle"
},
"expansion": "Dutch wrikken (“to wriggle”)"
},
{
"name": "der",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gml",
"3": "wricken",
"4": "",
"5": "to move jerkily; sprain"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German wricken (“to move jerkily; sprain”)"
},
{
"name": "der",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*wrigōną",
"4": "",
"5": "to wriggle"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wrigōną (“to wriggle”)"
},
{
"name": "der",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*wreyḱ-",
"4": "",
"5": "to turn, wrap, tie"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (“to turn, wrap, tie”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "wriggen"
},
"expansion": "Low German wriggen"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "nds-de",
"2": "wricken",
"3": "",
"4": "to row; scull; move back and forth"
},
"expansion": "German Low German wricken (“to row; scull; move back and forth”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "vrikke",
"3": "",
"4": "to move; turn; wriggle"
},
"expansion": "Danish vrikke (“to move; turn; wriggle”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "vricka",
"3": "",
"4": "to sprain; twist; scull"
},
"expansion": "Swedish vricka (“to sprain; twist; scull”)"
}
],
"links": [
[
"wricken",
"wricken#Middle_English"
],
[
"wricken",
"wricken#Middle_Dutch"
],
[
"wrikken",
"wrikken#Dutch"
],
[
"wricken",
"wricken#Middle_Low_German"
],
[
"*wrigōną",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wrigōną"
],
[
"*wreyḱ-",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wreyḱ-"
],
[
"*wer-",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wer-"
],
[
"wriggen",
"wriggen#Low_German"
],
[
"wricken",
"wricken#Low_German"
],
[
"vrikke",
"vrikke#Danish"
],
[
"vricka",
"vricka#Swedish"
]
],
"references": [],
"descendants": [],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "noun",
"glosses": [
"A painful muscular spasm in the neck or back"
],
"tags": [],
"recordId": "1a6b961f8e4857ba8ea1726d5d0c345dd0533d4514c1d5de3a0653c929cd0b21",
"rawRecordSha256": "064c381d4cdc88e3b9e4cf0df62601b7662a643516472e3de9cee45640282b78",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 3021664
},
{
"pos": "verb",
"glosses": [
"To twist; turn",
"To wrench; strain"
],
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"recordId": "61fc16afa36f8ee03ddfc38b8dcd429d83ce7255f6e77ceb3968eb7959d9f7ed",
"rawRecordSha256": "d2d35b22493aaf3c69180086e30f33e99025b353c3a0a6a87acc96d1d98ac310",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 3021663
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 0,
"glosses": 0
}
}