Where does “skrivebord” come from?
skrivebord (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål skrive, from Old Norse skrifa, from Proto-Germanic skrībaną, from Latin scrībō, from Proto-Italic skreiβō, from Proto-Indo-European skreybʰ- — to write.
skrivebord (Norwegian Bokmål): a desk
Ancestry of “skrivebord”, step by step