scipbryce

Old English

Etymology

From scip (“ship”) +‎ bryce (“breaking, fragment”). Compare Faroese skipbrot, Dutch schipbreuk, and German Schiffbruch.

Noun

scipbryce m

1. ship wreck; that which washes ashore from shipwreck; wreckage

Descendants

• Middle English: shipbreche

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “scip-bryce”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.