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

1. fur, hide, pelt
2. 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
      • → Faroese: skermur
      • → Icelandic: skermur
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: skjerm
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: skjerm
    • → Swedish: skärm
• Old Dutch: skirm
  • Middle Dutch: scherm
    • Dutch: scherm
      • Afrikaans: skerm
      • → Caribbean Javanese: sekèrm
      • → Indonesian: sekeram, skerem
      • → Papiamentu: skèrmu
    • Limburgish: sjèrm
• 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