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Sch ), which is identical with the Aryan root skrak appearing in .   ',, ‘flatterer, parasite; slit, cleft,’ from schranz, , ‘breach, rift, cleft, hole, wound, slashed garment, an overdressed young man (with slashed sleeves, &c.), fop’; with the last of these varied meanings  , ‘flattering courtier,’ is connected. On the other hand, the  meaning ‘rift’ points to a connection with , so that two roots skrant and skrand, have to be assumed in .  ', , ‘to scrape,’  only, from  schrappen, an intensive form of  schrapen, schrabben, ‘to scratch,’  scrapien (schrapien),  to scrape,  skrapa. From the  cognates  escraper, ‘to scratch off,’ is derived. See further under  and .  ,, ‘screw,’ from the late  schrûbe, ; allied to  schroef ( screw),  skrúfa; these terms, some of which may have been borrowed, and hence do not correspond exactly in sound, are essentially. Note schrauf,  schraufen (compared with Swiss štrûbe). Origin obscure.   ,, ‘fright, terror, scare,’ from schrëcke, , allied to , , from  schrëcken,  scrëcchôn, ‘to start up, spring up, spring, leap'; the early sense ( the evolution in meaning of ) is preserved in the compound. From this comes the causative schręcken, ‘to cause to spring up, terrify.’ In connection with the intensive form  scrëcchón,  further  scricch,  schric(ck),, ‘starting up suddenly, fright';  schrikken, ‘to frighten,’  skrika, ‘to glide.’ The root is essentially.   ,, ‘cry, scream,’ from schrî, schrei,  screi,. ‘cry, call, shout,’ allied to, schrîen,  scrîan,  , ‘to cry out.’ The  verbal root skrī̆, which is without doubt genuinely , is wanting in the other.  ,, ‘to write,’ from the  schrîben,  scrîban; corresponding to the   schrijven,  scrîƀan,  skríva. Also with a remarkably divergent meaning, scrîfan, ‘to inflict a punishment, impose penance, receive confession,’  to shrive,  scrift,  shrift, so too  scrîva, ‘to inflict a  punishment,’  skript, ‘confession, punishment,’ skripta, ‘to confess, cause to confess, punish.’ In the latter cognates there appears at all events a genuine  verbal root, skrī̆b, ‘to inflict a punishment,’ which was transferred by Christianity to ecclesiastical affairs; with this root  biscrîƀan, ‘to concern oneself about,’ is also probably connected. On the adoption of Roman characters, and the introduction of the art of writing (in contrast to the earlier Runic system; see, , and ), scrîbere was now combined with this genuine  , and in the South of Germany entirely supplanted the meaning of the old scrîban;   and. In especially, scrîban, ‘to write,’ took firm root, as might have been expected; in  the   wrîtan ( to write),  used of scratching runes, was retained. , see.  ,, ‘box, chest. shrine, coffin,’ from schrîn,  and, ‘chest for clothes, money, or valuables, coffin,’  scrìni, ;  the corresponding  schrijn,  scrîn,  shrine,  skrín. From and  scrînium, ‘box, case for papers, &c., escritoire,’ whence also  scrigno, ‘clothes-press,’  écrin, ‘casket.’ The diffusion of the term through the old West  languages makes it probable that the  word was borrowed at an early period, — contemporaneously with,  and ?.  ,, ‘to step, stride, stalk,’ from the  schrîten,  scrîtan,  also ‘to leap into the saddle.’   skrîðan, skrîdan, ‘to stride, go’ (ti-scrîdan, ‘to dissolve’),  schrijden, ‘to stride,’  scrîðan, ‘to stride, go, wander’ (whence  to stride is allied?),  skrîða, ‘to crawl, glide.’ The signification of the  verbal root skrìþ (skrī̆d), Aryan skrī̆t, was at first general (perhaps ‘to move slowly’), in contrast to the special sense in.  ,, ‘writing, letters, inscription,’ from schrift,  skrift, , a verbal abstract from , connected with  scriptum.  ,, ‘shrill,’ only, formed from the   schrell;   schrillen,  to shrill,  scralletan, ‘to sound loudly,’  skrölta, ‘to sound loudly.’  and Aryan root skrel, skral.  ,, ‘step, stride, gait,’ from the  schrit,  scrit, ; a <section end="Schritt" />