Etymograph

English

flyscreen

From fly + screen.

A compound of fly + screen

Proto-Indo-European *plew- ‘to fly, flow, run’

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Proto-Germanic *fleugǭ ‘flying insect, fly’

Proto-West Germanic *fleugā ‘fly’

Old English flēge ‘a fly’

Middle English fflye

English fly

Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- ‘to cut off, sever’

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Old Dutch skirm

Middle Dutch scherm

Anglo-Norman escren ‘firescreen’

Middle English scren

English screen

Today it means

noun A screen attached to the front of a motorcycle, designed to prevent insects from flying into the rider.

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

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