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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.
Declension
Declension of scip (strong a-stem)
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Descendants
- 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