Latin {scri:bere} = "to write"
German {schreiben} = "to write"
Anglo-Saxon {scri:fan} = "to appoint"
Was there an native Common Germanic word {skri:ban} = "to appoint"? Or did
that word come from Latin when the Romans and the Germans came into contact,
and the meaning "appoint" came via Roman edicts being sent round in writing?