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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English wrighte, wriȝte, wruhte, wurhte, from Old English wyrhta (“worker, maker”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurhtijō (as in *wurkijan). Cognate with wrought, dated Dutch wrecht, work.
Noun[edit]
wright (plural wrights)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
(obsolete) builder or maker of something
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Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
wright (third-person singular simple present wrights, present participle wrighting, simple past and past participle wrighted)
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