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> >So are scrib- and graph- from the same PIE root? Who knows?
> Not according to Calvert Watkins' supplement in AHD3, which makes the
> roots in question *skribh- and *grbh-.
There can be no common PIE root for 'write' -- because writing didn't
exist in PIE times. The various families used variously appropriate
words from nearby semantic fields.
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