köken: From Middle High German tartsche, from Old French targe, from Old Norse targa, from Proto-Germanic *targǭ. Compare cognate Old High German zarga, whence modern Zarge (“frame”), Old English targe, whereas Middle Low German tartze, tartzge and Middle Dutch tarche, tartse are also borrowings from Old French. In medieval use of infantry shields, by the 16th century also of equestrian shields; in the…
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: Inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *trāsás, from Proto-Indo-European *tros-ó-s (“fear, dread”), from *tres- (“to tremble (with fear)”). Compare Sanskrit त्रास (trāsa).
köken: From Middle Dutch bokelare, folk-etymological interpretation of French bouclier (“buckler”), linking it to Dutch beuk (“beech”). The French word came from Old French boucler, bucler, from Vulgar Latin *bucculārius (“bossed”), from Latin buccula (“boss”).
köken: From Old Georgian ფარი (pari). An Iranian borrowing. Compare Old Armenian պահ (pah, “watch, guard”) and Middle Persian 𐫛𐫀𐫍𐫡 (pʾhr /pāhr/, “watch-post”). Additionally, however, Klimov considers, that ფარავს (paravs, “to cover”), ფარული (paruli, “hidden”) and others are instead descendants of Proto-Kartvelian *par- ~ *pr- (“to cover”).