From Middle English wryngen, wringen, from Old English wringan, from Proto-Germanic *wringaną (compare West Frisian wringe, Low German wringen, Dutch wringen, German ringen ‘to wrestle’), from Proto-Indo-European *wrenǵʰ- (compare Lithuanian reñgtis ("to bend down"), Ancient Greek ῥίμφα ("fast")), nasalized variant of *werǵʰ- ‘bind, squeeze’. More at worry.
From Middle English wrynge, from Old English wringe.
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