Word Origin Summary

*(s)keyt- is attested in Proto-Indo-European. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• Schild

  Pennsylvania German · derived from

• uforsonlighet

  Norwegian Bokmål · inherited from

• Schild

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• Schild

  English · borrowed from

• abgeschmackthet

  Norwegian Bokmål · inherited from

• ŝildo

  Esperanto · borrowed from

• шилт

  HBS · derived from

• Schild

  German · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root