vi. 写,写字;写作,作曲;写信
vt. 写,书写;写信给;著述
write 写
来自Proto-Germanic*writan,撕,刮,引申词义写,划,比较scribe,carve.可能进一步来自PIE*wer,弯,转,引申词义刻,划,刮,比较PIE*sker,砍,劈,刻,写,弯,转,词源同scar,shear,scribe,carve,ring,curve.
For men use to write an evill turne in marble stone, but a good turne in the dust. [More, 1513]Words for "write" in most Indo-European languages originally mean "carve, scratch, cut" (such as Latin scribere, Greek graphein, glyphein, Sanskrit rikh-); a few originally meant "paint" (Gothic meljan, Old Church Slavonic pisati, and most of the modern Slavic cognates). To write (something) off (1680s) originally was from accounting; figurative sense is recorded from 1889. Write-in "unlisted candidate" is recorded from 1932.