shroud
English
/ʃɹaʊd/
noun
Definitions
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- (nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English schroud (shroud) inherited from Old English scrūd inherited from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*skrūdą
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- beshroud English
- disenshroud English
- enshroud English
- enshroudest English
- enshroudeth English
- enshroudment English
- laid English
- reshroud English
- shroud-laid English
- shrouded English
- shrouder English
- shroudest English
- shroudeth English
- shroudie English
- shroudless English
- shroudlike English
- shroudy English
- unshroud English
- unshrouded English
- *skrew- Proto-Indo-European
- *skrūdą Proto-Germanic
- scrud Old English
- scrūd Old English
- schroud Middle English
- schrouded Middle English
- scriúta Irish
- skrúð Old Norse
- scrodon Old High German