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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *skipą.
Noun
*skip n
- ship
- (Elbe Germanic) any hollow or concave manmade object
- (Elbe Germanic) vessel, tub
Inflection
Neuter a-stem
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Singular
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Nominative
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*skip
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Genitive
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*skipas
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Singular
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Plural
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Nominative
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*skip
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*skipu
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Accusative
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*skip
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*skipu
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Genitive
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*skipas
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*skipō
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Dative
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*skipē
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*skipum
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Instrumental
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*skipu
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*skipum
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Reconstruction notes
The more general sense of hollowed-out objects is possibly inherited from pre-Germanic and a relic from before the meaning narrowed to “ship”, as this is a common semantic shift among many languages and would furthermore fit the etymology (whether it is Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, carve”) or Latin scyphus (“cup, vessel”)).
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