scrivan

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian scrivano. Doublet of scrivano, scrivener, and escribano.

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of scrīvan (strong class 1)

infinitive	scrīvan
indicative	present	past
1st person singular	scrīvo, scrīvon	scrēf
2nd person singular	scrīvis, scrīvist	scrivi, scrivis
3rd person singular	scrīvit	scrēf
1st person plural	scrīvon	scrivun
2nd person plural	scrīvet	scrivut
3rd person plural	scrīvont	scrivun
subjunctive	present	past
1st person singular	scrīve	scrivi
2nd person singular	scrīves, scrīvest	scrivi, scrivis
3rd person singular	scrīve	scrivi
1st person plural	scrīven	scrivin
2nd person plural	scrīvet	scrivit
3rd person plural	scrīven	scrivin
imperative	present
singular	scrīf
plural	scrīvet
participle	present	past
	scrīvandi	scrivan, giscrivan

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: schriven
  • Dutch: schrijven
    • Afrikaans: skryf
    • Jersey Dutch: sxrāive
    • Negerhollands: skriev, skrif
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: screef
    • → Sranan Tongo: skrifi
      • Aukan: sikiifi
      • Saramaccan: sikífi
  • Limburgish: sjrieve

Further reading

• “skrīvan”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012