wrinkle
The origin and history of wrinkle.
Etymology
This word came into English via Middle English wrinkle or wrynkel (“crease, fold, wrinkle”), from the related verb. It is cognate with Dutch wrinkel (“wrinkle, crease”). Compare also Middle English runkel (“wrinkle”), from Old Norse hrukka (“wrinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkwǭ (“wrinkle, crease”), which also gave French fronce (“crooked smile, scowl, frown”), German Runzel (“wrinkle”), Danish rynke (“wrinkle”) and Swedish rynka and rynkla (“wrinkle”).
