Where does “manuskript” come from?
manuskript (Danish) comes from Medieval Latin manuscriptum, from Latin scriptus, from Latin scribo, from Proto-Italic skreiβō, from Proto-Indo-European skreybʰ- — to write.
manuskript (Danish): manuscript; copy; script
Ancestry of “manuskript”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Medieval Latin | manuscriptum | writing by hand; handwritten document; nominative... |
| 2 | Latin | scriptus | written, having been written |
| 3 | Latin | scribo | I write |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | skreiβō | to carve |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | skreybʰ- | to write |