"wrong" meaning in Middle English

See wrong in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /wrɔnɡ/, [wrɔŋɡ], /rɔnɡ/ (note: later ME), [rɔŋɡ] (note: later ME)
Etymology: Semantic loan from Old Norse rangr, while the form is from Old English wrang (“rough, uneven”); ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz. Etymology templates: {{sl|enm|non|rangr}} Semantic loan from Old Norse rangr, {{inh|enm|ang|wrang||rough, uneven}} Old English wrang (“rough, uneven”), {{der|enm|gem-pro|*wrangaz}} Proto-Germanic *wrangaz Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective}} wrong
  1. wicked, evil, (morally) wrong
    Sense id: en-wrong-enm-adj-KzJnjyFI
  2. unjust, unfair, illegitimate
    Sense id: en-wrong-enm-adj-mc7rT4sD
  3. unlawful, illegal
    Sense id: en-wrong-enm-adj-jOgFgu0R
  4. inappropriate
    Sense id: en-wrong-enm-adj-rYphAf6u
  5. inaccurate, mistaken
    Sense id: en-wrong-enm-adj-VwCwNmcu
  6. curved, crooked, bent
    Sense id: en-wrong-enm-adj-UCbsF1e8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: wrang, wronge, wronk, wornge, rong Related terms: wrongful, wrongfully

Noun

IPA: /wrɔnɡ/, [wrɔŋɡ], /rɔnɡ/ (note: later ME), [rɔŋɡ] (note: later ME) Forms: wronges [plural]
Etymology: Semantic loan from Old Norse rangr, while the form is from Old English wrang (“rough, uneven”); ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz. Etymology templates: {{sl|enm|non|rangr}} Semantic loan from Old Norse rangr, {{inh|enm|ang|wrang||rough, uneven}} Old English wrang (“rough, uneven”), {{der|enm|gem-pro|*wrangaz}} Proto-Germanic *wrangaz Head templates: {{head|enm|nouns|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} wrong, {{enm-noun|pl=wronges}} wrong (plural wronges)
  1. A wrong, injustice
    Sense id: en-wrong-enm-noun-0mXtwpWG
  2. A (moral) wrong, evil, wrongdoing, sin Categories (topical): Ethics
    Sense id: en-wrong-enm-noun-gLaw-1xQ Disambiguation of Ethics: 18 5 9 4 0 4 3 46 9 3
  3. injury, harm
    Sense id: en-wrong-enm-noun-DAt1UgS2
  4. mistake, misstep
    Sense id: en-wrong-enm-noun-02Dksc64
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: wrang, wronge, wronk, wornge, rong

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e268c0e and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.