Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/skrifti

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Latin scriptum, reinterpreted as an abstract noun in *-ti (Proto-Indo-European *-tis). The -ft- may be due either to still active Primärberührung or to analogy.

Noun

*skrifti f

writing, scripture

Inflection

i-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*skrifti
Genitive	*skriftī
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*skrifti	*skriftī
Accusative	*skrifti	*skriftī
Genitive	*skriftī	*skriftijō
Dative	*skriftī	skriftim, skriftijum
Instrumental	*skriftī	skriftim, skriftijum

Notes

Old Frisian has the feminine for “writing” and a masculine for “penance”. Only the latter is attested in Old English. This might point to an inherited Anglo-Frisian masculine variant. Neuter use in some younger languages is secondary.

Related terms

*skrīban

Descendants

Old English: scrift m
- Middle English: shrift
  - English: shrift
Old Frisian: skrift f, skrifta m
- West Frisian: skrift n
Old Saxon: *skrift
- Middle Low German: schrift f
  - Low German: Schrift f
  - → Old Norse: skript f
    - Danish: skrift c or n
    - Icelandic: skrift f
    - Norwegian: skrift f or n
    - Swedish: skrift c
Old Dutch: *skrift f (attested as genitive scriphte)
- Middle Dutch: schrift, schricht f or n
  - Dutch: schrift n (f for “holy scripture”)
    - Afrikaans: skrif
    - Berbice Creole Dutch: skrifu
    - Negerhollands: skrift
    - → Caribbean Javanese: sekrip
    - → Indonesian: skrip
    - → Papiamentu: skref, skrif
Old High German: scrift f
- Middle High German: schrift f
  - German: Schrift f
  - Luxembourgish: Schrëft f
  - Yiddish: שריפֿט f (shrift)

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