The story
- Old English · inherited fromryne“a watercourse, flow”
- Middle English · inherited fromrune, rone
- English todaywrine
Alteration (due to wrinkle) of earlier rine (“ditch, trench”), from Middle English rune, rone, from Old English ryne (“a watercourse, flow”), from rinnan (“to run”). More at run, runnel.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishryne all →
rhinerine
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.