wrengðe

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Middle English

Etymology

From wrong (“wrong, crooked”) +‎ -the (abstract nominal suffix), probably by analogy with strengthe and lengthe.

Pronunciation

Noun

wrengðe (uncountable)

  1. (rare, hapax) The state or quality of being crooked; crookedness; distortion.
    • c. 1275, “Natura aquile”, in Bestiary 85 (British Library MS. Arundel 292)‎, Norwich, archived from the original on 22 September 2022, folio 4, verso, lines 66–69; republished at London: British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, c. 2010:
      ðanne goð he to a ſton. / ⁊ he billeð ðer on. / billeð til his bec bifoꝛn. / haueð ðe ƿꝛengðe foꝛloren.
      Then he goes up to a stone / and he scrapes on it; / he scratches it until / his beak has lost its crookedness.

Descendants

  • >? English: wrength
  • >? Scots: wrength

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