scree

Probably a back-formation from screes, from Old Norse skriða (“landslide, landslip”); compare skríða (“to glide”) (from Proto-Germanic skrīþaną (“to crawl; to glide; to walk”), from Proto-Indo-European (s)kreyt-, *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn”)). The word is cognate with Icelandic skriða (“avalanche; landslide, landslip; steep mountain- or hillside made up of gravel and loose rocks”).

Onomatopoeic.

A variant of screed.

Apparently from screen.