shop – English noun declension

English noun forms of shop

Noun: shop
Singularshop
Pluralshops

Sample Sentences

  • From shop to shop
  • Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks
  • The polished counter. [1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:]
  • A tailor called me in his shop. [c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:]
  • I just left Dannemora and the same thing is happening here at Auburn prison […] They don't want to put me in the plate shop or let me have a good paying job. [1986 December 14, Willie Rice, “He Is White And I Am Black”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 22, page 4:]
  • The car's in the shop right now.
  • What struck me about the occasion was the quiet though cheerful tone of the gathering, the restraint, noticeable also in the very few speeches. Chemistry was taboo, by common consent — no "shop" allowed. [1917, South African Chemical Institute, Proceedings, page 28:]
  • But Mary cut her short.
  • "We don't allow shop at tea, Sally," she said firmly. [1919, Virginia Woolf, Night and Day:]
  • Nothing but shop was ever talked on any of these occasions. I am sure these close relationships were necessary for the conduct of the war, and I could not have grasped the whole position without them. [1953, Winston Churchill, “Strain and Suspense”, in The Second World War, page 619:]
  • a barber shop
  • This is where I do my weekly shop.
  • I’ve got a big shop, so feel free to go in front.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *skup-
3. Old English scoppa
4. Middle English schoppe
5. English shop
6. From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”). Cognate with Dutch schop (“shed”), German Schuppen (“shed”), German Schober (“barn”), French échoppe (“booth, shop”) (< Germanic). The verb is denominal. The noun senses “act of shopping”, “purchased items” are backformed from the verb. See: Middle English Nouns 'shoppe', Old English Nouns 'sċoppa', Dutch Nouns 'schop', German Nouns 'Schuppen', German Nouns 'Schober', French Nouns 'échoppe'.

Verbs referencing "shop"

Dutch Nouns shop, Finnish Nouns shop, German Nouns Schober, Galician Nouns chopa, Irish Nouns siopa, French Nouns échoppe, Finnish Nouns shoppi, Galician Nouns choupelo, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns sjappe, Swedish Nouns sjapp, Polish Nouns szopenfeld.