Where does “wrac” come from?

wrac (Middle Dutch) comes from Polish wracać, from Old Polish wracać — to come back, to go back, to return.

wrac (Middle Dutch): defective; wreck

Definitions

  1. defective; wreck

Ancestry of “wrac”, step by step

wrac traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Polish wracać

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Polishwracaćto come back, to go back, to return
2Old Polishwracaćto come back, to go back, to return

via Proto-West Germanic *wrak

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanic*wrakfloating in the sea
2Proto-Germanic*wrakaz—

Words derived from “wrac”

Every word from Old Polish wracać →Every word from Polish wracać →
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