scríbend

Borrowed from Latin scrībendum; compare Welsh ysgrifen.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsʲkʲrʲiːvʲen͈d]

scríbend n (genitive scríbind, nominative plural scríbenda)

1. verbal noun of scríbaid
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 9^a22 (Wikisource link)

     Cía for·comam-ni ríagoil sen-Gréc hi scríbunt in dá caractar isnaib ɔsonaib ucut, ro·cruthaigsemmar camaiph immurgu óen charactar – ·f· tar hési ·p· co tinfeth – i n‑epertaib Latinṅdaib.

     Although we preserve the rule of the ancient Greeks in writing the two charac­ters in those conso­nants, we have, however, formed one character – f instead of p with lenition – in Latin words.

2. something written (book, manuscript, etc.)
3. letter, message
4. charter, title-deed, claim
5. inscription

• scríbnid

• Irish: scríbhinn
• Manx: screeuyn
• Scottish Gaelic: sgrìobhainn
• ⇒ Middle Irish: scríbnaigid
• ⇒ Middle Irish: scríbneóir

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “scríbend”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language