-ship

See also: ship and Ship

English

Etymology

From Middle English -schipe, -shippe, from Old English -sċiepe, -sċipe (“shape, form, state”), from Proto-Germanic *-skapiz. Compare Scots -schip, West Frisian -skip, Dutch -schap, German -schaft, Danish -skab, Swedish -skap, Icelandic -skapur.

Suffix

-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.
fellow → fellowship

owner → ownership

Synonyms

(property or state of being): -ness, -hood, -itude, -th, -ity, -dom

Derived terms

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Translations

Property or state of being

Armenian: -ություն (-utʿyun)
Bulgarian: -ство (-stvo)
Czech: -ství (cs)
Danish: -skab (da)
Dutch: -schap (nl)
Esperanto: -eco
Finnish: -us (fi)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
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: please add this translation if you can

Macedonian: -ство (-stvo)
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: -skap (no) m or n
Polish: -stwo (pl) n
Portuguese: -idade (pt) f
Romanian: -ie f, -itate f, -tate f, -ătate 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: please add this translation if you can
West Frisian: -skip

Anagrams

HIPs, hiPS, hips, phis, pish

Middle English

Suffix

-ship

Alternative form of -schipe

References

“-ship(e, suf.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 22 June 2018.

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