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.
Probably a loanword but the donor language is uncertain. It may ultimately be related to the Old Iranian word vanhana- “cloth, fabric” [of Indo-European origin; compare Old Indic vásana- “cloth”; Latin vestis (“garment”); etc.] The word probably entered Hungarian through trade before the conquest. First attested in 1464.