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Where does “ekri” come from?

ekri (Haitian Creole) comes from French écrire, from Middle French escrire, from Old French escrire, from Latin scrībō, from Proto-Italic skreiβō, from Proto-Indo-European skreybʰ- — to write.

ekri (Haitian Creole): write

Definitions

  1. write

Ancestry of “ekri”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchécrireto write
2Middle Frenchescrireto write
3Old Frenchescrirealternative infinitive of escrivre
4Latinscrībō—
5Proto-Italicskreiβōto carve
6Proto-Indo-Europeanskreybʰ-to write
Every word from Proto-Indo-European skreybʰ- →