Talk:Shriver

As a Shriver descendant, I've heard that the name 'Shriver' is German, not English.

What ever idiot told you it was English?!!! From the German word "Scrieber" meaning someone who could read and write. Shriver-from Bavaria. English? I find that insulting. Quite a lot of ignorant people out there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:100F:B005:C89F:DC7A:94F7:D014:A4F0 (talk) 02:51, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Existence of the Shriver family name in Germany
As of the time being, there is practically no one by the family name Shriver existing in Germany http://christoph.stoepel.net/geogen/en/Default.aspx (type in "Shriver") as it is not a German family name at all. There is no "sh..." but always a "sch..." in German, the first version is purely English language.

If the family descends from Germans, their original name might have been "Schreiber" (= writer) which has been anglicized phonetically to "Shriver" after immigration into the anglo-saxon area.

No, Shriver is NOT a German family name but originates from a German family name. IT is a purely American family name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.188.121.199 (talk) 21:22, 8 October 2009 (UTC)  shouldn't it say instead: The name derives from the Latin word "scribere"? See here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shrive and here: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=shrive

According to etymonline, the Proto-Indo-European root is *skribh- "to cut".

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