scrivan
English
editNoun
editscrivan (plural scrivans)
- (obsolete) A clerk or writer.
- 1822, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia And of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea, in Search of the Ancient Berenice; and Another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon, volume 2, page 314:
- They told me their husbands were scrivans to the sultan, and that on their arrival in Cairo they should go to the house of the Khalil Bey till they proceeded to Alexandria; […]
References
edit- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “scrivan”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 804.
Old Dutch
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *skrīban.
Verb
editscrīvan
- to write
Inflection
editThis verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
edit- Middle Dutch: schriven
Further reading
edit- “skrīvan”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
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