bewrite

The story

1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*biwrītan“to write down; write about”
2. Old English · inherited frombewrītan“to write, record, copy”
3. Middle English · inherited frombewriten
4. English todaybewrite

From Middle English bewriten, from Old English bewrītan (“to write, record, copy”), from Proto-West Germanic *biwrītan (“to write down; write about”), equivalent to be- (“about, over”) + write. Cognate with Old Frisian biwrīta (“to write down”), Middle Low German bewriten (“to engrave; to pronounce a blessing”), German bereiẞen (“to scale something by hand, carry out manually”). Compare also Dutch beschrijven (“to describe”), German beschreiben (“to describe”), Swedish beskriva (“to describe”).