English

shadowcasting

From shadow + casting.

Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- ‘darkness’

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Proto-West Germanic *skadu

Old English sċeadu ‘shadow’

Old English sċeaduwe

Middle English schadowe

Middle English castyng

Today it means

noun The generation of shadows from a three-dimensional model.

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

Etymograph / shadowcasting