köken: From a combination of Old French chanevas, chenevas and Old Picard canevach. The Old French comes from a root ultimately derived from Latin *canapus, from cannabis, such as that of chanvre, possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *cannabāceus or *cannapāceus, and the Old Picard comes from Old Northern French canevas, of ultimately the same origin as the previous word. Compare English canvas, itself…
köken: Multiple proposals exist. It could be onomatopoeic equivalent to Polish chełst, chełstać, it could be borrowed from Middle High German hulst f (“covering, sheath”), another derivation from Proto-Germanic *huljaną (“to cover”) as *hulistrą, or secondarily related to that if hulft, hulfter, from which modern German Halfter, is the original. The Finnish fabric name hursti may be borrowed from…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *skirmi Old Dutch skirm Middle Dutch schermbor. Old French escran Middle French écran French écranbor. Polish ekran Borrowed from French écran, from Old French escren, from Middle Dutch scherm.
veil (gauze, crape, or similar material spread out to hide the face) · mist (light, fine fog, cloud, shadow that obstructs clear vision) · fog (silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image)