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A more surprising relative is shrive, as in Shrovetide and short shrift. The Latin word must have been borrowed into Germanic early enough that we got the Old English change of sc to sh, and also it developed a strong past tense, shrive - shrove - shriven.
Presumably the meaning changed something like writing -> written instruction for penance -> penance.
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