wrest
English
/ɹɛst/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To pull or twist violently.
- (transitive) To obtain by pulling or violent force.
- (transitive) To seize.
- (transitive) To distort, to pervert, to twist.
- (transitive) To tune with a wrest, or key.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English wresten inherited from Old English wrǣstan (twist forcibly, wrench) inherited from Proto-Germanic *wraistijaną derived from Proto-Indo-European *wreiḱ-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wreiḱ-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- arm-wrestle English
- outwrest English
- outwrestle English
- overwrest English
- overwrestle English
- turn English
- turnwrest English
- wrester English
- wrestle English
- wrestler English
- *wreiḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wraistijaną Proto-Germanic
- *wrīhaną Proto-Germanic
- wrǣstan Old English
- wresten Middle English
- wrestlen Middle English
- *wrīhan gmw-pro