-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

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