scrift
Old English edit
Etymology edit
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”).
Noun edit
sċrift m
- what is prescribed as punishment; penalty
- penance, shrift
- one who passes sentence; judge
- a confessor (in Christianity, one who hears confession)
Declension edit
Declension of scrift (strong a-stem)
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Descendants edit
References edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sċrift”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.