Etymology
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From Middle English -schipe, -shippe, from Old English -sċiepe, from Proto-West Germanic *-skapi, from Proto-Germanic *-skapiz.
Compare Scots -schip, West Frisian -skip, Dutch -schap, German -schaft, Swedish -skap, Icelandic -skapur. Related to shape.
-ship
- 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
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Translations
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Property or state of being
- Armenian: -ություն (-utʻyun)
- Bulgarian: -ство (-stvo)
- Czech: -ství (cs)
- Danish: -skab (da)
- Dutch: -schap (nl)
- Esperanto: -eco (eo)
- Finnish: -us (fi)
- French: -esse (fr) f, -eur (fr) f
- Georgian: -ობა (-oba), -ება (-eba)
- German: -schaft (de)
- Hungarian: -ság (hu), -ség (hu)
- Icelandic: -skapur
- Ido: -eso
- Italian: -ezza f or f pl, -ità f or f pl, -enza f
- Khmer: ភាព (km) (phiəp)
- Macedonian: -ство (-stvo)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: -skap (no) m or n
- Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: -stwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: -idade (pt) f
- Romanian: -ie (ro) f, -itate (ro) f, -tate (ro) f, -ătate (ro) f
- Russian: -ство (-stvo)
- Spanish: -azgo (es) m, -dad (es) f
- Swedish: -skap (sv)
- Turkish: (depending on the last vowel:) -lık (tr), -lik (tr), -luk (tr), -lük (tr)
- Vietnamese: mối (vi)
- West Frisian: -skip
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