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Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch -schap.
Suffix
-skap
- -ship; -hood
Derived terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse -skapr, from Proto-Germanic *-skapiz. Cognate with English -scape and -ship. When Norwegian borrowed words from Dutch, Middle Low German, or Middle High German or German containing the suffixes -schap or -schaft, it used this suffix to loan-translate those as well.
Suffix
-skap
- (nouns from nouns): -ship, -hood
Derived terms
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse -skapr, from Proto-Germanic *-skapiz. Cognate with English -scape and -ship. When Norwegian borrowed words from Dutch, Middle Low German, or Middle High German or German containing the suffixes -schap or -schaft, it used this suffix to loan-translate those as well.
Suffix
-skap m (definite singular -skapen, indefinite plural -skapar, definite plural -skapane)
- (nouns from nouns): -ship, -hood
- ven (“friend”) → venskap (“friendhood”)
- (nouns from adjectives): -ness, -ity
- lik (“equal”) → likskap (“equality”)
- veik (“weak”) → veikskap (“weakness”)
- (nouns from adjectives): -ship, -hood
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Similar to above.
Suffix
-skap m or n
- (nouns from nouns): -hood
- bror (“brother”) → brorskap (“brotherhood”)
Etymology 3
Similar to above.
Suffix
-skap n (definite singular -skapet, indefinite plural -skap, definite plural -skapa)
- (nouns from nouns):
- mann (“man/human”) → mannskap (“crew”)
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Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse -skapr, from Proto-Germanic *-skapiz.
Suffix
-skap n or c
- Used for creating nouns: -ship, -hood
Derived terms
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