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 Spanish escudo, from Latin scūtum, from Proto-Indo-European *skei- (“to cut, split”), an extension of *sek- (“to cut”). Cognate with English écu, scudo and escudo.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese escudo (“shield”), from Latin scūtum (“shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *skei- (“to cut, split”), which is an extension of *sek- (“to cut”). The name of the currency comes from the heraldic shields on the coins.
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).
köken: Etymology tree Latin integere Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Latin integumentum From integere + -mentum.
shield, buckler (defence weapon) · shield, shell, carapace (hard protective cover on the back of an animal)
çekim: çoğul skjolde · tamlayan skjolds
köken: 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”).
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ščitъ (“shield”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *skeitum, *skoitum, from Proto-Indo-European *skey-to-m, from *skey- (“to cut, separate”).