Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/skirmi

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skirmiz.

Noun

*skirmi m

fur, hide, pelt
covering, shelter, screen

Inflection

i-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*skirmi
Genitive	*skirmī
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*skirmi	*skirmī
Accusative	*skirmi	*skirmī
Genitive	*skirmī	*skirmijō
Dative	*skirmī	skirmim, skirmijum
Instrumental	*skirmī	skirmim, skirmijum

Derived terms

*skirmijan

Descendants

Old Saxon: *skirm, *skerm
- Middle Low German: scherm, scharm
  - German Low German: Schirm
  - → Danish: skærm
  - → Icelandic: skermur
  - → Norwegian Bokmål: skjerm
  - → Norwegian Nynorsk: skjerm
  - → Swedish: skärm
Old Dutch: skirm
- Middle Dutch: scherm
  - Dutch: scherm
Old High German: scirm, skirm, scerm, skerm
- Middle High German: schirm, scherm
  - German: Schirm
    - >? Finnish: sermi
    - → Russian: ширма (širma)
  - Hunsrik: Scherrem
  - Yiddish: שירעם‎ (shirem)
→ Old French: escran, escren, escrein (see there for further descendants)
→⇒ Italian: schermo

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