A person who builds or makes something, like a shipwright who builds ships or a playwright who writes plays.
From Old English 'wright' or 'wryhta' meaning maker or builder, related to 'work.' It appears in compound words where it indicates craftspeople and their trades.
The suffix '-wright' is hiding in plain sight: shipwrights built ships, wheelwrights made wheels, and playwrights wrote plays—it's like a time machine showing us what jobs were essential centuries ago.
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