schreiben

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German word schreiben comes from Proto-Indo-European *skreybʰ-, and later Proto-Italic *skreiβō (To carve.)

*skreybʰ- (Proto-Indo-European)

*skreiβō (Proto-Italic)

To carve.

scribo (Latin)

I write.

*skrībaną (Proto-Germanic)

To write.

scrīban (Old High German)

skrīban (Old High German)

schrīben (Middle High German)

schreiben (German)

(transitive) to spell. (transitive, and, intransitive) to write; to write out.

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