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.
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).