Etymograph

English

filmscript

From film + script.

A compound of film + script

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

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti

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Latin scrībō ‘to write’

Latin scrīptum ‘something written’

Old French escrit ‘writing(s)’

Middle English scrit ‘writing; document’

English script

Today it means

noun The screenplay for a film.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / filmscript