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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
An iterative verb to the strong verb *wrītaną (“to write”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrid-néh₂-ti.[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
*writtōną[1]
- to carve
- to write
Inflection
The original paradigm would have consisted of two stem variants, singular *writt- against non-singular *writ-.
Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*writtōn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 597