Where does “wrap” come from?

Wrap comes from Middle English wrappe, Old English wrappan, Proto-Germanic wrappaną, and Proto-Indo-European werb-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European wer-.

wrap (English): To enclose completely in any flexible, thin...

Definitions

  1. To enclose completely in any flexible, thin...

Ancestry of “wrap”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishwrappe—

Words derived from “wrap”

Every word from Middle English wrappe →