"-ship" meaning in English

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Suffix

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. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*(s)kep-}}, {{inh|en|enm|-schipe}} Middle English -schipe, {{m|enm|-shippe}} -shippe, {{inh|en|ang|-sċiepe}} Old English -sċiepe, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*-skapi}} Proto-West Germanic *-skapi, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*-skapiz}} Proto-Germanic *-skapiz, {{cog|sco|-schip}} Scots -schip, {{cog|fy|-skip}} West Frisian -skip, {{cog|nl|-schap}} Dutch -schap, {{cog|de|-schaft}} German -schaft, {{cog|sv|-skap}} Swedish -skap, {{cog|is|-skapur}} Icelandic -skapur, {{m|en|shape}} shape Head templates: {{head|en|suffix|cat2=noun-forming suffixes|cat3=|head=|id=}} -ship, {{en-suffix|cat2=noun-forming suffixes}} -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. Tags: morpheme Synonyms (property or state of being): -ness, -hood, -itude, -th, -ity, -dom Translations (Property or state of being): -ություն (-utʿyun) (Armenian), -ство (-stvo) (Bulgarian), -ství (Czech), -skab (Danish), -schap (Dutch), -eco (Esperanto), -us (Finnish), -esse [feminine] (French), -eur [feminine] (French), -ობა (-oba) (Georgian), -ება (-eba) (Georgian), -schaft (German), -ság (Hungarian), -ség (Hungarian), -skapur (Icelandic), -eso (Ido), -ezza [feminine, plural, singular] (Italian), -ità [feminine, plural, singular] (Italian), -enza [feminine] (Italian), ភាព (phiəp) (Khmer), -ство (-stvo) (Macedonian), -skap [masculine, neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), -stwo [neuter] (Polish), -idade [feminine] (Portuguese), -ie [feminine] (Romanian), -itate [feminine] (Romanian), -tate [feminine] (Romanian), -ătate [feminine] (Romanian), -ство (-stvo) (Russian), -azgo [masculine] (Spanish), -dad [feminine] (Spanish), -skap (Swedish), -lık (english: depending on the last vowel:) (Turkish), -lik (Turkish), -luk (Turkish), -lük (Turkish), mối (Vietnamese), -skip (West Frisian)
    Sense id: en--ship-en-suffix-ajOlm449 Categories (other): Armenian terms with redundant script codes, English entries with incorrect language header

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    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Property or state of being",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-ie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Property or state of being",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-itate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Property or state of being",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-tate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Property or state of being",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-ătate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "-stvo",
      "sense": "Property or state of being",
      "word": "-ство"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Property or state of being",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-azgo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Property or state of being",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-dad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Property or state of being",
      "word": "-skap"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "english": "depending on the last vowel:",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Property or state of being",
      "word": "-lık"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Property or state of being",
      "word": "-lik"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Property or state of being",
      "word": "-luk"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Property or state of being",
      "word": "-lük"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "Property or state of being",
      "word": "mối"
    },
    {
      "code": "fy",
      "lang": "West Frisian",
      "sense": "Property or state of being",
      "word": "-skip"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-ship"
}

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