wrack
English
/ɹæk/
noun
Definitions
- (archaic) Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
- (archaic) Ruin; destruction.
- The remains; a wreck.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English wrake (persecution, injury, vengeance) inherited from Old English wracu, wrǣċ (vengeance, revenge).
Origin
Old English
wrǣċ
Gloss
vengeance, revenge
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- awrack English
- bladder English
- bladderwrack English
- horn English
- hornwrack English
- ship English
- shipwreck English
- shipwreckee English
- shipwrecky English
- tide English
- tidewrack English
- wrackful English
- wrake English
- Wrack German
- eerwraak Dutch, Flemish
- wederwraak Dutch, Flemish
- weerwraak Dutch, Flemish
- wraak Dutch, Flemish
- wraakporno Dutch, Flemish
- *wrakō Proto-Germanic
- vrak Swedish
- niedwracu Old English
- wracu Old English
- wrǣċ Old English
- ƿracu Old English
- schip-wracke Middle English
- wrake Middle English
- wrakeful Middle English
- vrag Danish
- wrāke, wrake Middle Dutch
- wrak Middle Low German