Where does “skrivebord” come from?
skrivebord (Danish) comes from Danish skrive, from Old Saxon skrīban, from Proto-West Germanic skrīban, from Proto-Germanic skrībaną, from Latin scrībō, from Proto-Italic skreiβō, from Proto-Indo-European skreybʰ- — to write.
skrivebord (Danish): a desk
Ancestry of “skrivebord”, step by step