Date: Aug. 31st, 2022 05:42 pm (UTC)
troisoiseaux: (0)
From: [personal profile] troisoiseaux
more obviously than the standard English related to Swedish 'skriva' (which means 'write' [...])

Ooh, I wonder if the English word "scrivener" is any etymological relation??

ETA: no, but as a relevant data point: "The word comes from Middle English scriveiner, an alteration of obsolete scrivein, from Anglo-French escrivein, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *scriban-, scriba, itself an alteration of Latin scriba (scribe)" (x)
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