not 100% random #German vocabulary:
der Schirm: umbrella, visor (of a baseball cap or similar)
der Regen: rain
die Sonne: sun
der Regenschirm: umbrella (against rain)
der Sonnenschirm: sunshade, parasol (more commonly referring to the big kind standing somewhere permanently, because that's just more common that the one-person handheld kind)

Also:
die Sicht: sight, view, visibility [e.g. how far you can see in fog]
der Sichtschirm: screen [to protect an area from people looking in]
Also also:
der Bilschirm (sometimes shortened to "Schirm"): screen, display, monitor

yet more:
der Schutz: protection
der Schutzschirm: shield, protective screen; also figuratively a set of policies meant to protect a given group.

die Lampe: lamp
der Lampenschirm: lampshade

fallen: to fall
der Fall: the fall (also case, as in criminal case)
der Fallschirm: parachute

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