Word Origin Summary

Scherm is attested in Middle Dutch. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. skirmOld Dutchinherited from
2. *skirmizProto-West Germanicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• ekranoplan

  English · derived from

• ekran

  Polish · derived from

• ekraan

  Estonian · derived from

• screen

  English · derived from

• ekran

  HBS · borrowed from

• екран

  Ukrainian · borrowed from

• escran

  French · borrowed from

• ecranisation

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root