English
seal script
Seal script comes from Chinese 篆文.
- Chinesemodern篆文
- Englishtodayseal script
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Chinesemodern篆文
- Englishtodayseal script
Made of the words seal + script
Proto-Germanic *selhaz ‘seal (animal)’
Proto-West Germanic *selh ‘seal (animal)’
Old English seolh ‘seal (animal)’
Middle English sel ‘seal (pinniped)’
English seal
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti
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Latin scrībō ‘to write’
Latin scrīptum ‘something written’
Old French escrit ‘writing(s)’
Middle English scrit ‘writing; document’
English script
Every English word from Chinese 篆文
Today it means
noun Synonym of small seal script.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Chinese 篆文 / seal script