## Derived Forms
- limp-wrist
- limp-wristed
- wrist-fall
- wrist-slap
- wrist-top
- wristband
- wristguard
- wristless
- wristpin
- wriststrap
- wristwarmer
- wristwatch

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *wreyt-
- Root: wrist
- Root: *wristu
- Root: *wristuz
- Root: *wrīþaną

## Etymology
From Middle English wrist, from Old English wrist, from Proto-West Germanic *wristu, from Proto-Germanic *wristuz (compare Old Frisian wrist, Low German Wrist, German Rist (“back of hand, instep, withers”), Swedish vrist), from Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną (“to twist, turn”). More at writhe.

## AI Etymology
Wrist is from Middle English wrist, from Old English wrist, from Proto-West Germanic *wristu, from Proto-Germanic *wristuz (compare Old Frisian wrist, Low German Wrist, German Rist (“back of hand, instep, withers”), Swedish vrist), from Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną (“to twist, turn”). More at writhe. Important historical forms include Proto-Indo-European *wreyt-, Middle English wrist, Old English wrist, Proto-West Germanic *wristu, Proto-Germanic *wristuz, and Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną. In present-day use, it means the joint between the hand and the arm.

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- The Human Body

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