English

filmist

From film + -ist.

Formed from film + -ist

Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- ‘membrane’

Proto-Germanic *filmīn- ‘thin skin, membrane’

Proto-West Germanic *filmīn-

Old English filmen ‘film, membrane, thin skin’

Middle English filme ‘film’

English film

Today it means

noun A filmmaker.

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