scrivan

English

Noun

scrivan (plural scrivans)

1. (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

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “scrivan”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 804.

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *skrīban.

Verb

scrīvan

1. to write

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: schriven
  • Dutch: schrijven
    • Afrikaans: skryf
    • Jersey Dutch: sxrāive
    • Negerhollands: skriev, skrif
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: screef
    • → Sranan Tongo: skrifi (see there for further descendants)
  • Limburgish: sjrieve

Further reading

• “skrīvan”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012