See writan on Wiktionary
{
"descendants": [
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "writ"
},
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "wryte"
},
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "wret"
},
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "rit"
},
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "write"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"word": "writen"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "writ"
},
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "wryte"
},
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "wret"
},
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "rit"
},
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "write"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"word": "ritten"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": ":inh",
"3": "gmw-pro:*wrītan"
},
"expansion": "[Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from\", \"terms\" : [ { \"children\" : [ ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*wreyd-\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" } ], \"keyword\" : \"derived\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Germanic\", \"term\" : \"*wrītaną\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"gem-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-West Germanic\", \"term\" : \"*wrītan\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"gmw-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Old English\", \"term\" : \"writan\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"ang\" }\" data-lang=\"ang\" data-title=\"writan\">",
"name": "etymon"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*wrītan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *wrītan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*wrītaną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wrītaną",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "wrītan",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "strong",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ang-conj",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "I",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītan",
"links": [
[
"wrītan",
"writan#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītenne",
"links": [
[
"wrītenne",
"writenne#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīte",
"links": [
[
"wrīte",
"write#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrāt",
"links": [
[
"wrāt",
"wrat#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītst",
"links": [
[
"wrītst",
"writst#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "write",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītt",
"links": [
[
"wrītt",
"writt#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīt",
"links": [
[
"wrīt",
"writ#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrāt",
"links": [
[
"wrāt",
"wrat#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītaþ",
"links": [
[
"wrītaþ",
"writaþ#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "writon",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīte",
"links": [
[
"wrīte",
"write#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "write",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīten",
"links": [
[
"wrīten",
"writen#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "writen",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīt",
"links": [
[
"wrīt",
"writ#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītaþ",
"links": [
[
"wrītaþ",
"writaþ#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītende",
"links": [
[
"wrītende",
"writende#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "writen",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ġewriten",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "wrītan"
},
"expansion": "wrītan",
"name": "ang-verb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "wrītan<s1>"
},
"name": "ang-conj"
}
],
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old English entries with etymon",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages using etymon with no ID",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with etymon",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "51 19 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old Saxon entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "90 5 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 4 84 4 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "āwrītan"
},
{
"word": "bewrītan"
},
{
"word": "efenwrītan"
},
{
"word": "forewrītan"
},
{
"word": "forwrītan"
},
{
"word": "ġewrītan"
},
{
"word": "miswrītan"
},
{
"word": "tōwrītan"
},
{
"word": "þurhwrītan"
},
{
"word": "underwrītan"
},
{
"word": "wrīting"
},
{
"word": "ymbwrītan"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
72,
78
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
95,
100
]
],
"english": "Against a dwarf, one should take seven little wafers, like those one makes offerings with, and write these names on each wafer: Maximianus, …",
"ref": "11th century, Against a dwarf:",
"text": "Wið dweorh man sċeal niman VII lȳtle oflǣtan, swylċe man mid ofrað, and wrītan þās naman on ǣlcre oflǣtan: Maximianus, …",
"translation": "Against a dwarf, one should take seven little wafers, like those one makes offerings with, and write these names on each wafer: Maximianus, …",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to write"
],
"id": "en-writan-ang-verb-GyIdbR6y",
"links": [
[
"write",
"write"
]
],
"related": [
{
"word": "ināwrītan"
},
{
"word": "inwritting"
},
{
"word": "ōāwrītan"
},
{
"word": "ofāwrītan"
},
{
"word": "onāwrītan"
},
{
"word": "onwrīting"
},
{
"word": "unāwriten"
},
{
"word": "writian"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwriː.tɑn/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iː.tɑn"
}
],
"word": "writan"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Low German",
"lang_code": "nds",
"word": "rieten"
}
],
"lang": "Middle Low German",
"lang_code": "gml",
"word": "wrîten"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*wrītan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *wrītan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*wrītaną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wrītaną",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "wrītan",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "writun",
"tags": [
"plural",
"preterite"
]
},
{
"form": "giwritan",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "strong",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "osx-conj-st",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "1",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītan",
"links": [
[
"wrītan",
"writan#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītu",
"links": [
[
"wrītu",
"writu#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrēt",
"links": [
[
"wrēt",
"wret#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītis",
"links": [
[
"wrītis",
"writis#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "writi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītid",
"links": [
[
"wrītid",
"writid#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrēt",
"links": [
[
"wrēt",
"wret#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītad",
"links": [
[
"wrītad",
"writad#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "writun",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīte",
"links": [
[
"wrīte",
"write#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "writi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītes",
"links": [
[
"wrītes",
"writes#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "writis",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīte",
"links": [
[
"wrīte",
"write#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "writi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīten",
"links": [
[
"wrīten",
"writen#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "writin",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīt",
"links": [
[
"wrīt",
"writ#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītandi",
"links": [
[
"wrītandi",
"writandi#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "giwritan",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "writan",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "verb",
"head": "wrītan"
},
"expansion": "wrītan",
"name": "head"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "wrīt",
"2": "wrīt",
"3": "wrēt",
"4": "writ",
"5": "writ",
"class": "1"
},
"name": "osx-conj-st"
}
],
"lang": "Old Saxon",
"lang_code": "osx",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"to write"
],
"id": "en-writan-osx-verb-GyIdbR6y",
"links": [
[
"write",
"write"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"to inscribe, engrave"
],
"id": "en-writan-osx-verb-8jYSGm4b",
"links": [
[
"inscribe",
"inscribe"
],
[
"engrave",
"engrave"
]
]
}
],
"word": "writan"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"word": "wrijten"
}
],
"lang": "Middle Dutch",
"lang_code": "dum",
"word": "writen"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "odt",
"2": "gem-pro",
"inh": "1"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "dercat"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "odt",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*wrītan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *wrītan",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *wrītan.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "wrītan",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "strong",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "odt-conj-st",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "1",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītan",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīto",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīton",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrēt",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītis",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "writi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītit",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrēt",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītun",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "writon",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītit",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "writot",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītunt",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "writon",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "writi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "writi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītin",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "writin",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "writit",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītin",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "writin",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīt",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītit",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "participle",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītandi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "writan",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "giwritan",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "odt",
"2": "verb",
"cat2": "",
"head": "*wrītan",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "*wrītan",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"head": "*wrītan"
},
"expansion": "*wrītan",
"name": "odt-verb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "wrīt",
"class": "1"
},
"name": "odt-conj-st"
}
],
"lang": "Old Dutch",
"lang_code": "odt",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Old Dutch/writan",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "62 38",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "58 42",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to carve"
],
"id": "en-writan-odt-verb-UAfC37a9",
"links": [
[
"carve",
"carve"
]
],
"tags": [
"reconstruction"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"to inscribe, engrave"
],
"id": "en-writan-odt-verb-8jYSGm4b",
"links": [
[
"inscribe",
"inscribe"
],
[
"engrave",
"engrave"
]
],
"tags": [
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"word": "writan"
}
{
"categories": [
"Old Dutch basic verbs",
"Old Dutch class 1 strong verbs",
"Old Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
"Old Dutch lemmas",
"Old Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Old Dutch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Old Dutch terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old Dutch verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"descendants": [
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"word": "wrijten"
}
],
"lang": "Middle Dutch",
"lang_code": "dum",
"word": "writen"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "odt",
"2": "gem-pro",
"inh": "1"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "dercat"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "odt",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*wrītan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *wrītan",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *wrītan.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "wrītan",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "strong",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "odt-conj-st",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "1",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītan",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīto",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīton",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrēt",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītis",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "writi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītit",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrēt",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītun",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "writon",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītit",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "writot",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītunt",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "writon",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "writi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "writi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītin",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "writin",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "writit",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītin",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "writin",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīt",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītit",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "participle",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītandi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "writan",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "giwritan",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "odt",
"2": "verb",
"cat2": "",
"head": "*wrītan",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "*wrītan",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"head": "*wrītan"
},
"expansion": "*wrītan",
"name": "odt-verb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "wrīt",
"class": "1"
},
"name": "odt-conj-st"
}
],
"lang": "Old Dutch",
"lang_code": "odt",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Old Dutch/writan",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"to carve"
],
"links": [
[
"carve",
"carve"
]
],
"tags": [
"reconstruction"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"to inscribe, engrave"
],
"links": [
[
"inscribe",
"inscribe"
],
[
"engrave",
"engrave"
]
],
"tags": [
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"word": "writan"
}
{
"categories": [
"Old Saxon class 1 strong verbs",
"Old Saxon entries with incorrect language header",
"Old Saxon lemmas",
"Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old Saxon verbs",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "āwrītan"
},
{
"word": "bewrītan"
},
{
"word": "efenwrītan"
},
{
"word": "forewrītan"
},
{
"word": "forwrītan"
},
{
"word": "ġewrītan"
},
{
"word": "miswrītan"
},
{
"word": "tōwrītan"
},
{
"word": "þurhwrītan"
},
{
"word": "underwrītan"
},
{
"word": "wrīting"
},
{
"word": "ymbwrītan"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "writ"
},
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "wryte"
},
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "wret"
},
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "rit"
},
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "write"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"word": "writen"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "writ"
},
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "wryte"
},
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "wret"
},
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "rit"
},
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "write"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"word": "ritten"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": ":inh",
"3": "gmw-pro:*wrītan"
},
"expansion": "[Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from\", \"terms\" : [ { \"children\" : [ ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*wreyd-\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" } ], \"keyword\" : \"derived\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Germanic\", \"term\" : \"*wrītaną\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"gem-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-West Germanic\", \"term\" : \"*wrītan\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"gmw-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Old English\", \"term\" : \"writan\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"ang\" }\" data-lang=\"ang\" data-title=\"writan\">",
"name": "etymon"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*wrītan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *wrītan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*wrītaną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wrītaną",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "wrītan",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "strong",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ang-conj",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "I",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītan",
"links": [
[
"wrītan",
"writan#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītenne",
"links": [
[
"wrītenne",
"writenne#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīte",
"links": [
[
"wrīte",
"write#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrāt",
"links": [
[
"wrāt",
"wrat#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītst",
"links": [
[
"wrītst",
"writst#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "write",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītt",
"links": [
[
"wrītt",
"writt#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīt",
"links": [
[
"wrīt",
"writ#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrāt",
"links": [
[
"wrāt",
"wrat#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītaþ",
"links": [
[
"wrītaþ",
"writaþ#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "writon",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīte",
"links": [
[
"wrīte",
"write#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "write",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīten",
"links": [
[
"wrīten",
"writen#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "writen",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīt",
"links": [
[
"wrīt",
"writ#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītaþ",
"links": [
[
"wrītaþ",
"writaþ#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītende",
"links": [
[
"wrītende",
"writende#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "writen",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ġewriten",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "wrītan"
},
"expansion": "wrītan",
"name": "ang-verb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "wrītan<s1>"
},
"name": "ang-conj"
}
],
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "ināwrītan"
},
{
"word": "inwritting"
},
{
"word": "ōāwrītan"
},
{
"word": "ofāwrītan"
},
{
"word": "onāwrītan"
},
{
"word": "onwrīting"
},
{
"word": "unāwriten"
},
{
"word": "writian"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Old English class 1 strong verbs",
"Old English entries with etymon",
"Old English entries with incorrect language header",
"Old English lemmas",
"Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *wreyd-",
"Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Old English terms with quotations",
"Old English verbs",
"Pages using etymon with no ID",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Pages with etymon",
"Rhymes:Old English/iː.tɑn",
"Rhymes:Old English/iː.tɑn/2 syllables"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
72,
78
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
95,
100
]
],
"english": "Against a dwarf, one should take seven little wafers, like those one makes offerings with, and write these names on each wafer: Maximianus, …",
"ref": "11th century, Against a dwarf:",
"text": "Wið dweorh man sċeal niman VII lȳtle oflǣtan, swylċe man mid ofrað, and wrītan þās naman on ǣlcre oflǣtan: Maximianus, …",
"translation": "Against a dwarf, one should take seven little wafers, like those one makes offerings with, and write these names on each wafer: Maximianus, …",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to write"
],
"links": [
[
"write",
"write"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwriː.tɑn/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iː.tɑn"
}
],
"word": "writan"
}
{
"categories": [
"Old Saxon class 1 strong verbs",
"Old Saxon entries with incorrect language header",
"Old Saxon lemmas",
"Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old Saxon verbs",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"descendants": [
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Low German",
"lang_code": "nds",
"word": "rieten"
}
],
"lang": "Middle Low German",
"lang_code": "gml",
"word": "wrîten"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*wrītan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *wrītan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*wrītaną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wrītaną",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "wrītan",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "writun",
"tags": [
"plural",
"preterite"
]
},
{
"form": "giwritan",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "strong",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "osx-conj-st",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "1",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītan",
"links": [
[
"wrītan",
"writan#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītu",
"links": [
[
"wrītu",
"writu#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrēt",
"links": [
[
"wrēt",
"wret#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītis",
"links": [
[
"wrītis",
"writis#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "writi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītid",
"links": [
[
"wrītid",
"writid#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrēt",
"links": [
[
"wrēt",
"wret#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītad",
"links": [
[
"wrītad",
"writad#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "writun",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīte",
"links": [
[
"wrīte",
"write#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "writi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītes",
"links": [
[
"wrītes",
"writes#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "writis",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīte",
"links": [
[
"wrīte",
"write#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "writi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīten",
"links": [
[
"wrīten",
"writen#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "writin",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "wrīt",
"links": [
[
"wrīt",
"writ#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "wrītandi",
"links": [
[
"wrītandi",
"writandi#Old_Saxon"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "giwritan",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "writan",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "verb",
"head": "wrītan"
},
"expansion": "wrītan",
"name": "head"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "wrīt",
"2": "wrīt",
"3": "wrēt",
"4": "writ",
"5": "writ",
"class": "1"
},
"name": "osx-conj-st"
}
],
"lang": "Old Saxon",
"lang_code": "osx",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"to write"
],
"links": [
[
"write",
"write"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"to inscribe, engrave"
],
"links": [
[
"inscribe",
"inscribe"
],
[
"engrave",
"engrave"
]
]
}
],
"word": "writan"
}
Download raw JSONL data for writan meaning in All languages combined (15.2kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: 3 singular present wrītid",
"path": [
"writan"
],
"section": "Old Saxon",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "writan",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: 3 singular preterite wrēt",
"path": [
"writan"
],
"section": "Old Saxon",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "writan",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (872fc7b and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.