Where does “Sperrschrift” come from?
Sperrschrift (German) comes from German schrift, from Middle High German schrift, from Old High German scrift, from Latin scrīptum, from Latin scrībō, from Proto-Italic skreiβō, from Proto-Indo-European skreybʰ- — to write.
Sperrschrift (German): spaced type uniform letter spacing by adding whitespace around the characters
Definitions
- spaced type uniform letter spacing by adding whitespace around the characters
Ancestry of “Sperrschrift”, step by step
Sperrschrift traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German schrift
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | schrift | writing, script |
| 2 | Middle High German | schrift | — |
| 3 | Old High German | scrift | — |
| 4 | Latin | scrīptum | text; anything written, writing |
| 5 | Latin | scrībō | to write |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | skreiβō | to carve |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | skreybʰ- | to write |
via German sperren
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | sperren | to bar; to space out the letters of a word or... |
| 2 | Middle High German | sperren | — |
| 3 | Old High German | sperran | to put up rafters, beams; to barricade |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | *sparrijan | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | *sparrijaną | to bar, to block |