Neuter
🛡️

schild

Meaning

  1. (neuter) shield
  2. (neuter) shell, carapace, cuttlebone or scale
  3. (neuter, obsolete) a protective balustrade behind and on both sides of the bowsprit
  4. (dated, dialectal, neuter) signboard

Concepts

shield
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shell
🐚

sign-board

carapace
buckler
protection
signboard
Palladium
scutum
aegis
shield
🛡️
egis
escutcheon
plaque
scute
sign

upper shell

Synonyms

bescherming
B1
uithangbord
33k
bord
B1
bordje
C1
scherm
B2
schaal
B2
🐚
rugschild
steun
B1
stut
pantser
C2
houvast
C2
naambord
beukelaar
Translations

escudo
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Schild
bouclier
🛡️
escut
🛡️
escudo
🛡️
scudo
🛡️
scutum

ασπίδα

kalkan
🛡️
enseigne

escut

écu
🛡️
clipeus

Rückenschild

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sxɪlt/
Etymology

Inherited from Middle Dutch
schilt
Inherited from Old Dutch
skilt
In summary

From Middle Dutch schilt, from Old Dutch skilt, from Proto-West Germanic *skeldu (“shield”), from Proto-Germanic *skelduz (“shield”).

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