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-scape

suffix

Etymology

Etymology tree English landscapebf. English -scape Back-formation from landscape, the suffix representing Middle Dutch -schap (“the English suffix -ship, e.g. of friendship, kinship, ownership”), from Old Dutch -skap (“-ship”), from Proto-Germanic *-skapiz (“-ship”), from *skapaz (“shape, form”). Cognate with Modern Dutch -schap (“-ship”), German -schaft (“-ship”), Swedish -skap (“-ship”), -scipe (“-ship”). More at -ship, shape.

  1. derived from *-skapiz✻ — “-ship”
  2. derived from -skap — “-ship”
  3. derived from -schap — “the English suffix -ship, e.g. of friendship, kinship, ownership”

Definitions

  1. form, formation, shape

  2. scene, picture, view

  3. A specific type of space

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -scape. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA