writen

From Old Dutch *wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną.

writen

1. to turn, to twist
2. to wrap

• Dutch: wrijten

• “writen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

• wryten, write

From Old English wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną. Cognate to Middle Low German writen and Middle High German rīzen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwriːtən/

writen (singular simple past wroot, plural simple past wroten)

1. To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41

     And thei sauouriden so his loore that thei wroten it bisili and enforsiden hem to rulen hem theraftir… Maister Ion Aston taughte and wroot acordingli and ful bisili, where and whanne and to whom he myghte, and he vsid it himsilf, I gesse, right perfyghtli vnto his lyues eende.”

   1. To record in writing; to produce or add to a written document.
   2. To act as a notary or a scribe; to transcribe into or note with writing.
   3. To write about; to cover, discuss, or report on in writing.
   4. To create a written or literary work; to author.
   5. To send a letter or document one wrote off.
   6. To convert into another language; to make a translation of.
2. To engrave, carve, or scratch
3. To form words or letters via means other than drawing or engraving.
4. (rare) To make one's signature or identifying symbol.
5. (rare) To represent via means other than writing.

• writer

• English: write
• Scots: writ, wryte, wret

• “wrīten (v.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-30.

From Old Saxon writan (“to write, carve”), from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną.

• IPA^(key): /wriːtən/

wrîten

1. to write
2. to carve, to scratch