English

prescreen

From pre- + screen.

A compound of pre- + screen

Proto-Italic *prai ‘before’

Proto-Italic *prai- ‘pre-, before’

English pre-

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

Today it means

verb To screen in advance for potential problems, especially as a preliminary screening before further screening.

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

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