einschreiben

Word type: ein verb
Based on: schreiben

Perfect (spoken past): hat eingeschrieben

Preterite (written past): schrieb ein

Meanings

to enroll, to register, to inscribe, to enlist

(Basically writing your name into a list. A bit formal sounding and a bit too "big" for a small online course, but perfect for a university. MUST have a direct object (the person you register) and it's usually used reflexively - "sich+Acc einschreiben.")

to inscribe, to engrave

(VERY rare and sounds quite poetic.)

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Word Family

Root: *skribh-

The core idea of the root was:

cutting, slicing

And very early on it was used in the context of leaving markings or making drawings and eventually, writing things.
In the Latin branch, we have the verb *scribere, which meant to write, which is the origin for words like script, prescribe, subscribe, describe and more.

Here’s a (incomplete) list:

script, scripture
manuscript (“to write by hand”)
scribe
subscribe (“to write under”)
prescribe (“to write across”)
inscribe (“to write in”)
describe (“to write down”)
ascribe (“write toward”)
transcribe (“to write over”)
serif, sans-serif (“little stroke, draw”)

einschreiben

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