shield (broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body) · shield (anything which protects or defends)
çekim: çoğul boucliers
eş: écu, bouclier précambrien, manteau
köken: Ellipsis of Old French escut boucler (“shield with a buckle”), with change of suffix. Morphologically, from boucle + -ier.
levée de boucliers
He also carried his small triangular shield, broad enough at the top to protect the breast, and from thence diminishing to a point.
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic щитъ (ščitŭ), from Proto-Slavic *ščitъ (“shield”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *skeita, from Proto-Indo-European *skey-to-m, from *skey- (“to cut, separate”). Cognate with Serbo-Croatian štit, Old Irish scíath, Latin scūtum.
trough, wooden vessel · shell of a tortoise; also metaphorical.
köken: A contraction of لاوک (lâvak, “kneading trough”), derived with a l < n sound change from Old Iranian *nāwaka-, a diminutive of Proto-Iranian *náHuš (“boat”); doublet of ناوک (nâvak, “hopper or feeder of a mill; a small boat”) and ناوه (nâve, “kneading trough; a small boat”). Cognate with Mazanderani [script needed] (lɔk, “kneading trough”).
carapace (dorsal part of a turtle's shell) · shell (external covering of crustaceans) · shell (exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects)
çekim: çoğul carapaças
eş: frústula
köken: Etymology tree substrateder.? Spanish carapachobor. French carapacebor. Portuguese carapaça Borrowed from French carapace, from Spanish carapacho.
shell ((hard) external covering of an animal, egg, nut, various objects, etc. – used similarly to English) · peel, skin (outer layer or cover of a fruit or vegetable) · a hard case (especially for a mobile phone, tablet computer, or the like)
çekim: çoğul skals · tamlayan skals
köken: From Old Swedish skal, from Old Norse skel, from Proto-Germanic *skaljō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cleave”). Compare Danish skæl, Dutch schaal, Dutch schil, English shale, English shell, German Schale, Norwegian skjell.
köken: From Old East Slavic щитъ (ščitŭ), from Proto-Slavic *ščitъ (“shield”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *skeita, from Proto-Indo-European *skey-to-m, from *skey- (“to cut, separate”). Cognate with Serbo-Croatian štit, Old Irish scíath, Latin scūtum.
shield (broad piece of defensive armor) · escutcheon (the shield on which a coat of arms is displayed) · shield (large, flat expanse)
çekim: çoğul kilvet · tamlayan kilven
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kilpi (compare Estonian kilp, Livonian kiļb, more distantly also Northern Sami galba), possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hlībō (compare Old Norse hlíf).
From Old Danish skiold, from Old Norse skjǫldr, from Proto-Germanic *skelduz (“shield”), cognate with Norwegian skjold, Swedish sköld, English shield, Dutch schild, German Schild. Doublet of skilt (“sign”).