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