Where does “scribe” come from?

scribe (Middle English) comes from Old French scribe, from Latin scriba, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

Ancestry of “scribe”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchscribescribe
2Latinscribawriter, scribe, secretary, clerk
3Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
4Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
5Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

Words derived from “scribe”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from Latin -a →Every word from Latin scriba →
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