Where does “wreckage” come from?

Wreckage derives from English wreck plus the suffix -age, which comes from Old French -age, from Latin -aticum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -kos and -eh₂tos.

wreckage (English): Something wrecked, especially the remains or...

Definitions

  1. Something wrecked, especially the remains or...

Ancestry of “wreckage”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishwreckSomething or someone that has been ruined; The...
2Middle Englishwrekwreck
3Anglo-Normanwrekshipwreck
4Old Norsewrek—
5Proto-Germanicwrekanąto pursue, to drive out
6Proto-Indo-Europeanwreǵ-to work, act
Every word from Proto-Indo-European wreǵ- →Every word from Proto-Germanic wrekaną →Every word from Old Norse wrek →