Where does “écrire” come from?

écrire (Bourguignon) comes from Old French escrivre, from Latin scrībō, from Proto-Italic skreiβō, from Proto-Indo-European skreybʰ- — to write.

écrire (Bourguignon): to write

Definitions

  1. to write

Ancestry of “écrire”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchescrivreto write
2Latinscrībōto write
3Proto-Italicskreiβōto carve
4Proto-Indo-Europeanskreybʰ-to write
Every word from Proto-Indo-European skreybʰ- →Every word from Proto-Italic skreiβō →Every word from Latin scrībō →
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