-ship
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English -schipe, -shippe, from Old English -sċiepe, from Proto-West Germanic *-skapi, from Proto-Germanic *-skapiz.
Compare Scots -schip, Western Frisian -skip, Dutch -schap, German -schaft, Swedish -skap, Icelandic -skapur. Related to shape.
Suffix- 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
- French: -esse, -eur
- German: -schaft
- Italian: -ezza, -ità, -enza
- Portuguese: -idade
- Russian: -ство
- Spanish: -azgo, -dad
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