The phrase "attributed the origin of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the source or cause of something, often in academic or formal contexts.
Example: "The researchers attributed the origin of the phenomenon to environmental factors."
Alternatives: "ascribed the source of" or "credited the beginnings of".
To these animal figures are attributed the origin of such negative aspects of life as death and illness.
One of the favourite myths of the Vedas attributed the origin of the cosmos to the god Indra after he had slain the great dragon Vritra, a myth very similar to one known in early Mesopotamia.
Ferrari and Robertson (2004) attributed the origin of these two peaks to the sum and difference of C=C stretching and CH wagging of the trans-polyacetylene in nano-crystalline diamond.
It is interesting that in the preliminary conversation and investigation of pre-existing ideas, a considerable number of middle school students attributed the origin of different forms of life to God, while in the final test nobody cited divine creation.
For instance, Zhang et al.[7] and Maznev[15, 16] attributed the origin of the gaps they observed in film-substrate samples to the avoided crossings of the RW and zone-folded Sezawa modes.
From 1996 the website of the Colchester tourist board attributed the origin of the rhyme to a cannon recorded as used from the church of St Mary-at-the-Wall by the Royalist defenders in the siege of 1648.
She attributed the origins of the California Rule in part to a 1947 case brought by a public employee whose story stirred sympathy.
The first mechanically printed edition of Magna Carta was probably the Magna Carta cum aliis Antiquis Statutis of 1508 by Richard Pynson, although the early printed versions of the 16th century incorrectly attributed the origins of Magna Carta to Henry III and 1225, rather than to John and 1215, and accordingly worked from the later text.
Unfortunately, by attributing the origin of the doctrine to James Bradley Thayer, Posner misunderstands the concept.
Corroborated by theory, we attribute the origin of the ultrahigh conductance to the disorder-tolerant Fermi arcs.
The book included his "nebular hypothesis"—attributing the origin of the solar system to cooling and contracting of a gaseous nebula which strongly influenced future thought on planetary origin.
