The story
- Old English · inherited from*inwrītan“to inscribe”
- Middle English · inherited frominwriten“to inscribe”
- English todayenwrite
From Middle English inwriten (“to inscribe”), from Old English *inwrītan (“to inscribe”), suggested by Old English inwrītere (“writer, secretary”) and Old English inwritting (“inscription”), equivalent to en- (“in”) + write.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.