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Where does “skrifa” come from?

skrifa (Cornish) comes from Latin scribo, from Proto-Italic skreiβō, from Proto-Indo-European skreybʰ- — to write.

skrifa (Cornish): to write

Definitions

  1. to write

Ancestry of “skrifa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinscriboI write
2Proto-Italicskreiβōto carve
3Proto-Indo-Europeanskreybʰ-to write

Words derived from “skrifa”

  • liesskrifa
  • jynnskrifa
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