Where does “skriftlig” come from?
skriftlig (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål skrift, from Old Norse skript, from Middle Low German schrift, from Old Saxon skrift, from Proto-West Germanic skrifti, from Latin scrīptum, from Latin scrībō, from Proto-Italic skreiβō — to write.
skriftlig (Norwegian Bokmål): written
Ancestry of “skriftlig”, step by step