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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English wrighte, wriȝte, wruhte, wurhte, from Old English wyrhta (“worker, maker”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurhtijō (as in *wurkijan). Cognate with wrought, dated Dutch wrecht, work.
Noun
wright (plural wrights)
- (obsolete except in compounds) A builder or maker of something.
Derived terms
Translations
(obsolete) builder or maker of something
- Dutch: wrecht m, maker (nl) m, maakster (nl) f, schepper (nl) m schepster f
- Italian: maestro (it) m, maestra (it) f, esperto (it) m, esperta (it) f, costruttore (it) m, costruttrice (it) f
- Russian: ма́стер (ru) m (máster), мастери́ца (ru) f (masteríca), строи́тель (ru) m (stroítelʹ), строи́тельница (ru) f (stroítelʹnica), созда́тель (ru) m (sozdátelʹ), созда́тельница (ru) f (sozdátelʹnica)
- Sicilian: mastru (scn) m
- Ukrainian: творе́ць (uk) m (tvorécʹ)
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Etymology 2
Verb
wright (third-person singular simple present wrights, present participle wrighting, simple past and past participle wrighted)
- (dated) Misspelling of write.