Words that come from Proto-Indo-European wrey-

187 words across 26 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European wrey- — including writing, write, wrist, writ, handwriting, rewrite, handwritten, wrest.

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English (92)

Middle English (13)

German (11)

Icelandic (10)

Old English (10)

Swedish (6)

Serbo-Croatian (6)

Hungarian (5)

Proto-Germanic (5)

Old Norse (5)

Middle High German (3)

Luxembourgish (2)

Middle Low German (2)

Yiddish (2)

Old Saxon (2)

Tok Pisin (2)

Old High German (2)

Dutch (1)

Polish (1)

Russian (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Slovene (1)

German Low German (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)