Word Origin Summary

Escran is attested in French. 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
3. schermMiddle Dutchborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• ekranoplan

  English · derived from

• ekraan

  Estonian · derived from

• ekran

  HBS · borrowed from

• екран

  Ukrainian · borrowed from

• ecranisation

  English · derived from

• экран

  Kazakh · derived from

• ekran

  Crimean Tatar · borrowed from

• អេក្រង់

  Central Khmer · borrowed from

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