scrift

Old English

Etymology

From Latin scrīptum. Cognate with German Schrift (“font, writing, script”), Dutch schrift (“script, notebook, scripture”), Swedish skrift (“text, written work, book, report, script”) and Icelandic skrift (“writing”).

Noun

sċrift m

1. what is prescribed as punishment; penalty
2. penance, shrift
3. one who passes sentence; judge
4. a confessor (in Christianity, one who hears confession)

Declension

Declension of sċrift (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	sċrift	sċriftas
accusative	sċrift	sċriftas
genitive	sċriftes	sċrifta
dative	sċrifte	sċriftum

Related terms

• sċrīfan

Descendants

• Middle English: shrift
  • English: shrift

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sċrift”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.