Etymograph

English

shadowcast

From shadow + -cast (from broadcast).

Formed from shadow + -cast

Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- ‘darkness’

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Proto-West Germanic *skadu

Old English sċeadu ‘shadow’

Old English sċeaduwe

Middle English schadowe

English shadow

Today it means

noun The performance of a film by a group of amateurs at the same time as it is screened.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “shadowcast”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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