The story
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*wurhtijō
- Dutch · borrowed fromwrecht“worker”
- English todayRecht
From Scots or Dutch wrecht (“worker”), both cognate to English Wright and ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *wurhtijō. See below for German derivation.
Words from the same roots
Proto-West Germanic*wurhtijō all →
wright
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.