Where does “scriblen” come from?
scriblen (Middle English) comes from Latin scribillo, from Latin scrībō, from Proto-Italic skreiβō, from Proto-Indo-European skreybʰ- — to write.
Ancestry of “scriblen”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | scribillo | I scribble or write of trivial matters |
| 2 | Latin | scrībō | — |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | skreiβō | to carve |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | skreybʰ- | to write |
Words derived from “scriblen”