English
sightscreen
From sight + screen.
Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- ‘to see’
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Proto-West Germanic *sehwan ‘to see’
Proto-West Germanic *sihti ‘seeing’
Old English sihþ ‘something seen’
Middle English sighte
English sight
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- ‘to cut off, sever’
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Old Dutch skirm
Middle Dutch scherm
Anglo-Norman escren ‘firescreen’
Middle English scren
English screen
Today it means
noun A large screen, at each end of a cricket field, coloured to provide visual contrast to the cricket ball, to aid the batsman in seeing its movement through the air.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “sightscreen”. 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.
Etymograph / sightscreen