Noun: commonship
| Singular | commonship |
| Plural | commonships |
Sample Sentences
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The two languages develope in different directions but the old commonship is still discernible. [2004, Ingemar Nordgren, The Well Spring Of The Goths:]
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If they do not agree, then, as already mentioned, it is reserved to His Majesty, together with the approving Assembly, to effect the proposed change in the portion of the Monarchy concerned, to dissolve the commonship, and to make the consequent administrative arrangements; […] [1863, House of Commons Papers - Volume 74 - Page 22]
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There was even a commonship between the mine operators and the men at one time, before the Great Depression. [1988, Laurel Shakelford, Bill Weinberg, Our Appalachia:]
Nouns inflected like commonship
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From common + -ship. Compare North Frisian gemiinschap (“community”), Saterland Frisian Gemeenskup (“community”), West Frisian mienskip (“community”), Dutch gemeenschap (“community, fellowship”), German Gemeinschaft (“community, fellowship”), Swedish gemenskap (“community, fellowship”). See: Dutch Nouns '
gemeenschap', German Nouns '
Gemeinschaft', Swedish Nouns '
gemenskap'.