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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Possibly the causative of *wrinkaną, or more likely *wringaną + *-janą, the root final -k- was adopted from the iterative verb *wrunkōną.[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
*wrankijaną[1]
- to wring, to twist
Inflection
Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*wrankjan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 594