Etymograph

English

screening

From screen + -ing.

A compound of screen + -ing

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 Mesh material that is used to screen (as in a "screen door").

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

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