Wrong
/rɒŋ/noun
Not correct, accurate, or morally right.
Did you know?In Old English, *wrang* could mean physically bent or crooked, and that same “twisted” sense still haunts the word today in our ideas of moral and mental distortion.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*wer-
“to turn, bend, or twist”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*wrangaz
“crooked, bent, wrong”
Old English
English
wrang
“crooked, distorted, unjust”
Middle English
English
wrong
“crooked, unjust, improper”
Modern English
English
wrong
“not correct; unjust; morally bad”