wright

Meanings

Noun

• A builder or maker of something.

Verb

• Misspelling of write

Origin

• From Middle English wrighte, wriȝte, wruhte, wurhte, from Old English wyrhta ("worker; wright; workman; artificer; laborer; craftsman"), from Proto-West Germanic *wurhtijō (as in *wurkijan), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- ("to work") (English work). Cognate with wrought, dated Dutch wrecht.