Word Origin Summary

Skirm is attested in Old Dutch. 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

• 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

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