wry
English
/ɹaɪ/
adj
Definitions
- Turned away, contorted (of the face or body).
- Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic.
- Twisted, bent, crooked.
- Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English wrien (cover) inherited from Old English wrīġian (press forward, strive, struggle, twist, bend, go, turn, venture, endeavor) inherited from Proto-Germanic *wrigōną (wriggle) derived from Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (turn, tie, wrap, twist, bind, weave, bend), *wreyḱ- (turn, tie, wrap, twist, bind, weave, bend).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wreyḱ-
Gloss
turn, tie, wrap, twist, bind, weave, bend
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
織
Emoji
🙃
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- awry English
- awryness English
- bill English
- mouth English
- neck English
- necked English
- wrily English
- wrybill English
- wryly English
- wrymouth English
- wryneck English
- wrynecked English
- wryness English
- rica Latin
- wrikken Dutch, Flemish
- ῥικνός Ancient Greek
- ῥοικός Ancient Greek
- *wer- Proto-Indo-European
- *wreyḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wrigōną Proto-Germanic
- wrigian Old English
- wrīġian Old English
- bewrien Middle English
- wrien Middle English
- wricken Middle Low German
- *wreikā Proto-Italic
- рѣшити Old East Slavic
- wriggen Low German