English
enwrite
Enwrite comes from Middle English inwriten ‘to inscribe’, and goes back to Old English *inwrītan.
- Old Englishc. 450–1150*inwrītan‘to inscribe’reconstructed
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500inwriten‘to inscribe’
- Englishearliest quotation 1863enwrite
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Englishc. 450–1150*inwrītan‘to inscribe’reconstructed
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500inwriten‘to inscribe’
- Englishearliest quotation 1863enwrite
Earliest quotation: 1863, Edgar Allan Poe: “What wild heart histories seemed to lie enwritten /…”
Proto-Indo-European *wrey- ‘to rip’
Proto-Germanic *wrītaną ‘to carve’
Proto-West Germanic *wrītan ‘to scratch’
Old English wrītan ‘to write’
Middle English writen ‘to write’
English write
Every English word from Old English *inwrītan
Today it means
verb To write upon something; inscribe; imprint.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old English *inwrītan / enwrite