rangr

Old Norse

Etymology

From an earlier *wrangr, from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz, akin to the Common Germanic verb *wringan

Adjective

rangr

unjust

Descendants

→ Old English: wrang
- Middle English: wrang, wrong
  - English: wrong
  - Scots: wrang
Icelandic: rangur
Norwegian Nynorsk: rang
Swedish: vrång
Jamtish: ráng
Westrobothnian: vrang, rang

References

rangr in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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