Where does “scree” come from?
I can't write this etymology sentence because the chain you've provided contains only repetitions of "English screen" and "English scree" without any older language sources. An etymology requires tracing a word back through different languages to its origin, but this chain doesn't progress beyond English or provide source languages.
To write an accurate origin summary, I would need a chain like: English scree | Old Norse (or another source language) | (possibly earlier proto-language), with actual etymological progression rather than circular repetition.
Could you provide the actual etymological chain for "scree"?
scree (English): Loose stony debris on a slope; Similar debris...
Definitions
- Loose stony debris on a slope; Similar debris...
Ancestry of “scree”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | screes | plural of scree |
| 2 | Old Norse | skriða | landslide, landslip |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | skrīþaną | to walk, glide, crawl |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kreyt- | to wind; twist; bend |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ḱer- | dung, manure, filth; manure, dung, filth |
Words derived from “scree”