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Middle English
Noun
scip
- (Northern or Early Middle English) alternative form of schip
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *skip.
Cognate with Old Frisian skip, Old Saxon skip, Old High German skif, Old Norse skip, Gothic ššŗš¹š (skip).
Pronunciation
Noun
sÄip n
- ship
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Manuscript E, year 992
And sÄ here Ć¾Ä Ć¦tbƦrst, bÅ«tan Än sÄip Ć¾Ē£r man ofslÅg.- And then the army escaped, except for one ship whose crew was slain.
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
An. DCCLXXXVII HÄr nam ByrhtrÄ«c cing Offan dohtor Äadburge. ā on his dagum cÅman Ē£rest III sÄipa NorĆ°manna, ā Ć¾Ä sÄ Ä”erÄfa Ć¾Ē£r tÅ rÄd, ā hÄ«e wolde drÄ«fan tÅ Ć¾Ē£s cinges tÅ«ne... ĆƦt wĒ£ron Ć¾Ä Ē£restan sÄipu DenisÄra manna Ć¾e Angelcynnes land Ä”esÅhte.- Year 787 In this King Brightric kidnapped Offa's daughter Eadburg. And in those days came the first three Norse ships, intending to drive off the reeve and raid the king's town...Those were the first Danish ships to come to the land of the Angles.
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- Middle English: schip, chip, chippe, schepe, schipp, schippe, schup, schyp, schyppe, shepe, ship, shippe, shup, shuppe, shyp, shype, shyppe, sship, ssip, scip, scippe, scyp, scyppe
Old Saxon
Noun
scip n
- alternative spelling of skip