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-ship

suffix
/ʃɪp/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship From Middle English -schipe, -shippe, from Old English -sċiepe, from Proto-West Germanic *-skapi, from Proto-Germanic *-skapiz. Compare Scots -schip, West Frisian -skip, Dutch -schap, German -schaft, Swedish -skap, Icelandic -skapur. Related to shape.

  1. inherited from *-skapiz✻
  2. inherited from *-skapi✻
  3. inherited from -sċiepe
  4. inherited from -schipe

Definitions

  1. Appended to a noun to form a new noun denoting a property or state of being, time spent…

    Appended to a noun to form a new noun denoting a property or state of being, time spent in a role, or a specialised union. In particular, the way a set of social duties associated with a particular role shapes or develop's one's character.

    • fellow → fellowship
    • owner → ownership

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -ship. 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