-ship

See also: ship and Ship

English

Etymology

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.

Suffix

-ship

1. 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

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -ship

Translations

suffix denoting a 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

Anagrams

• HIPs, hiPS, hips, phis, pish

Middle English

Suffix

-ship

1. Alternative form of -schipe