Word Origin Summary

*skirmi is attested in Proto-West Germanic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• ekranoplan

  English · derived from

• ekraan

  Estonian · derived from

• screen

  English · derived from

• ekran

  HBS · borrowed from

• екран

  Ukrainian · borrowed from

• ecranisation

  English · derived from

• sgrin

  Welsh · borrowed from

• экран

  Kazakh · 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