köken: Inherited from Middle French and Old French escriture, inherited from Latin scrīptūra (“a writing, scripture”), from scrīptum, the supine of scrībō (“to write”). Compare Middle French scripture, a borrowing from Latin.
handwriting (the production of a text by hand; a specific, personal manner of writing by hand) · handwriting, signature (individual, recognizable features in the realization of some action or activity) · manuscript (an author's original unpublished version of a written text)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *suʀat? Proto-Malayic *surat Malay suratbor. Tagalog sulat Borrowed from Malay surat, from Proto-Malayic *surat, possibly from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *suʀat (“to carve, to incise”). Unlikely to be related to sugat. Compare Ilocano surat, Pangasinan sulat, Kapampangan sulat, Asi suyat, Central Bikol surat, Aklanon sueat, Cebuano sulat, Maranao sorat, and…