skrībh-

To cut, separate, sift. Extension of sker-¹.

1. scribble, scribe, script, scriptorium, Scripture, serif, shrive; ascribe, circumscribe, conscript, describe, festschrift, inscribe, manuscript, postscript, prescribe, proscribe, rescript, subscribe, superscribe, transcribe, from Latin scrībere, to scratch, incise, write.

2. scarify¹, from Greek skarīphos, scratching, sketch, pencil.

 

[Pokorny 4. (s)ker-, Section II. 945.]

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