wrake

wrake · noun¹

1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*wrakō
2. Old English · inherited fromwracu“revenge, persecution, misery, etc.”
3. Middle English · inherited fromwrake“vengeance, persecution, injury”
4. English todaywrake

From Middle English wrake (“vengeance, persecution, injury”), from Old English wracu (“revenge, persecution, misery, etc.”), from Proto-Germanic *wrakō, likely related to *wrēkō (“persecution, revenge, vengeance”). Cognate with Gothic 𐍅𐍂𐌰𐌺𐌰 (wraka, “persecution”), Middle Low German wrake and Middle Dutch wrake.

wrake · noun, verb²

Variant of wrack, possibly influenced by Etymology 1.

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