shryven
Middle English
/ˈʃriːvən/
verb
Definitions
- To confess, admit one's sins, shrive.
- To confess or admit in other contexts.
- To listen to or hear the sacrament of confession.
- To impose either penance or absolution in response to a confession.
- (usually in translation) To give thanks to God.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English sċrīfan (pass judgement, prescribe, decree, to prescribe penance absolution) inherited from Proto-Germanic *skrībaną derived from Latin scrībō (write, I write, recruiter).
Origin
Latin
scrībō
Gloss
write, I write, recruiter
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
書
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- shrive English
- shriver English
- shrivest English
- shriveth English
- shriving English
- Scribonius Latin
- ascribo Latin
- circumscribo Latin
- conscribo Latin
- contrascribo Latin
- describo Latin
- discribo Latin
- inscribo Latin
- postscribo Latin
- proscribo Latin
- scriba Latin
- scribillo Latin
- scriptilis Latin
- scriptio Latin
- scriptito Latin
- scriptura Latin
- scripturio Latin
- scrībō Latin
- superscribo Latin
- transcribo Latin
- *skreybʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *skrībaną Proto-Germanic
- scrifan Old English
- sċrīfan Old English
- shryver Middle English
- shryvyng Middle English
- skrifa Old Norse
- skript Czech
- skribi Esperanto
- skrif Icelandic
- *scrīvan Old High German
- scrīban Old High German
- scríbaid Old Irish
- shkruaj Albanian
- *skrīban gmw-pro
- scrivan Old Dutch
- scrīvan Old Dutch
- skrivan Old Saxon
- skrīvan Old Saxon
- *skreiβō Proto-Italic
- scrieve Scots
- skriva Old Frisian
- skrīva Old Frisian
- skrifa Cornish
- *śkrɔ̄n Proto-Albanian
- skriiw North Frisian
- scrivì Neapolitan