wry – English noun declension

Noun: wry

Singular

wry

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like wry

greyware, chronotropy, urgrund, cytosorting, homekeeping, pedobaiting, winterdress, JLNS, rumpology, hopkinsiaxanthin, enchylemma, further education, hexobendine, humdrumminess, unobligingness, backscroll, telocinobufagin, dosulepin, mensuralism, crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Middle English wrien, from Old English wrīġian (“to go, turn, twist, bend, strive, struggle, press forward, endeavor, venture”), from Proto-Germanic *wrigōną (“to wriggle”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (“to turn, wrap, tie”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”). Compare awry, wriggle. See: Old English Nouns 'wrīġian'.

Verbs referencing "wry"

Latin Nouns rica, Latin Nouns brigantes.