ship

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\ \ [OE] Ship comes from a prehistoric Germanic *skipam, which also produced German schiff, Dutch schip, Swedish skepp, and Danish skib. It is not known for certain where this came from, although a link has been suggested with Latvian shkibīt ‘cut, hew’, in which case the underlying meaning of ship could be ‘hollowed-out log’ – a ‘dugout’, in other words. The Old High German form schif was borrowed into Italian as schifo, and this made its way via French esquif into English as skiff [16].
\ \ The Middle Dutch form schip had a derivative schipper ‘captain of a small ship’, which has given English skipper [14]. And equip too comes from a relative of English ship.
\ \ Cf.⇒ EQUIP, SKIFF, SKIPPER

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