Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wrīhan

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

• *wrīan, *wrīgan

Presumably from Proto-Germanic *wrīhaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (“to twist, weave, bind”).

*wrīhan^[1][2]

1. to plait, pleat
2. to bind with twine, baste
3. to impale, skewer

• *wrigōn

• Old English: wrēon (“to cover (up)”)
  • Middle English: wrihen, wreon, wrien, wryen
    • English: wry
• Old Frisian: *wrīgia
  • West Frisian: riuwe (“to bind with twine; to constrict”)
  • ⇒ Old Frisian: wreigenge (“bedcover, duvet”)
  • ⇒ Old Frisian: wrichte (“battle-garment”)
• Old Saxon: *wrīgan, *wrīan
  • Middle Low German: rîgen, rîen
    • German Low German:

      Altmärkisch: rîn

      Low Prussian: rêgen

      Westphalian:

      Bentheimisch: rîgen

      Dortmundisch, Sauerländisch: riggen

      Sauerländisch: reyjen (Wenden)

      East Westphalian: rüijen, rüigen, röjjen (Lippe), ruijjen (Ravensberg)

      Westmünsterländisch: rijen

• Old Dutch: *rīgan, *rīan
  • Middle Dutch: rîen (“to bind with twine”), rijenn, rîgen
    • Dutch: rijgen
    • Limburgish: riege
• Old High German: rīhan, *rīgan
  • Middle High German: rîhen, rîgen, rîhhen (“to pleat; to impale”)
    • German: reihen
    • Luxembourgish: reien