regshoe: Redwing, a brown bird with a red wing patch, perched in a tree (Default)
regshoe ([personal profile] regshoe) wrote 2022-08-31 07:10 pm (UTC)

No, I think that is related! The Dictionary of the Swedish Academy relates 'skriva' to Latin 'scribere', which appears to be from 'scriba'. Hmm, it's surprising to see Swedish and Scots more similar to each other than English in a word that's originally from Latin (and apparently had a B originally, so they made the same change to V, which also happened in Anglo-French? More and more complicated...).

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