scip

Middle English

Noun

scip

(Northern or Early Middle English) alternative form of schip

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *skip.

Cognate with Old Frisian skip, Old Saxon skip, Old High German skif, Old Norse skip, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐍀 (skip).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃip/

Noun

sċip n

ship
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Manuscript E, year 992
  And sē here þā ætbærst, būtan ān sċip þǣr man ofslōg.
  And then the army escaped, except for one ship whose crew was slain.
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
  An. DCCLXXXVII Hēr nam Byrhtrīc cing Offan dohtor Ēadburge. ⁊ on his dagum cōman ǣrest III sċipa Norðmanna, ⁊ þā sē ġerēfa þǣr tō rād, ⁊ hīe wolde drīfan tō þǣs cinges tūne... Þæt wǣron þā ǣrestan sċipu Denisċra manna þe Angelcynnes land ġesōhte.
  Year 787 In this King Brightric kidnapped Offa's daughter Eadburg. And in those days came the first three Norse ships, intending to drive off the reeve and raid the king's town...Those were the first Danish ships to come to the land of the Angles.

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	sċip	sċipu
accusative	sċip	sċipu
genitive	sċipes	sċipa
dative	sċipe	sċipum

Synonyms

see Thesaurus:sċip

Derived terms

Descendants

Middle English: schip, chip, chippe, schepe, schipp, schippe, schup, schyp, schyppe, shepe, ship, shippe, shup, shuppe, shyp, shype, shyppe, sship, ssip, scip, scippe, scyp, scyppe
- English: ship
- Scots: ship
- Yola: zhip

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃiːp/

Noun

sċīp n (Northumbrian)

alternative form of sċēap

Usage notes

Campbell states also (§187) that this form occurs once in the Mercian part of the Rushworth Gospels; sċēp is the otherwise typical form in Mercian.

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	sċīp	sċīp
accusative	sċīp	sċīp
genitive	sċīpes	sċīpa
dative	sċīpe	sċīpum

Old Saxon

Noun

scip n

alternative spelling of skip