scrift

From Proto-West Germanic *skrifti. Which is a borrowing from Latin scrīptum.

scrift f

1. writing, scripture

• giscrift

• Middle Dutch: schrift, schricht f or n
  • Dutch: schrift n, schricht (f for “holy scripture”)
    • Afrikaans: skrif
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: skrifu
    • Negerhollands: skrift
    • → Caribbean Javanese: sekrip
    • → Indonesian: skrip
    • → Papiamentu: skref, skrif

• “skrift”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Latin scrīptum. Cognate with German Schrift (“font, writing, script”), Dutch schrift (“script, notebook, scripture”), Swedish skrift (“text, written work, book, report, script”) and Icelandic skrift (“writing”).

sċrift m

1. what is prescribed as punishment; penalty
2. penance, shrift
3. one who passes sentence; judge
4. a confessor (in Christianity, one who hears confession)

Strong a-stem:

• sċrīfan

• Middle English: schrift
  • English: shrift

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sċrift”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.