
ETYMOLOGY
from bread + wright (a workman, artificer)
EXAMPLE
“… And her wrigteleslike holden in bond.
Quað ðis bred wrigte liðeð nu me.
me drempte ic bar bread lepes ðre. …”
From: Genesis and Exodus, composed c1250;
Joseph and his Brethren
in: Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250
By: Joseph Hall, 1920