Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To hit a wrist shot.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense. · A stud or pin which forms a journal.
From Middle English wrist, from Old English wrist, from Proto-West Germanic *wristu, from Proto-Germanic *wristuz (compare Old Frisian wrist, Low German Wrist, German Rist (“back of hand, instep, withers”), Swedish vrist), from Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną (“to twist, turn”). More at writhe.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*wreyt-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionwristenm
- Inherited-form mentionwristang
- Inherited-form mention*wristugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*wristuzgem-pro
- Cognate mentionwristofs
- Cognate mentionWristnds
- Cognate mentionRistde · back of hand, instep, withers
- Cognate mentionvristsv
- Derivation mention*wrīþanągem-pro · to twist, turn
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