- wrangle
[wrangle 词源字典]
- wrangle: see wrong
[wrangle etymology, wrangle origin, 英语词源] - wrangle (v.)
- late 14c., from Low German wrangeln "to dispute, to wrestle," related to Middle Low German wringen, from Proto-Germanic *wrang-, from PIE *wrengh-, nasalized variant of *wergh- "to turn" (see wring). Meaning "take charge of horses" is by 1897, American English. Related: Wrangled; wrangling. The noun is recorded from 1540s.