Noun: schep
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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⁊ ſeide / what man of ȝou þᵗ haþ an hundꝛid ſcheep · ⁊ if he haþ looſt oon of hem .· Wher he leeueþ not nynti and nyne in deſert ⁊ goiþ to it þat periſchide til he fynde it? (And [he] said, "Which one of you, who has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, won't leave [the other] ninety-nine in the back country and hunt for the one that disappeared until they find it?") [c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Luke 15:4, folio 36, verso, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:]
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Hıs loꝛdes sheep[e] / hıs neet / hıs daẏerẏe / Hıs swẏn / hıs hoꝛs / hıs stooꝛ / and hıs pultrẏe / Was hoollẏ / ın thıs Reues gou[er]nẏnge […] (His lord's sheep, beef herd, dairy herd, / swine, horses, livestock, and poultry, / were entirely under this reeve's control […]) [1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 9, verso, lines 597-599:]
Nouns inflected like schep
flourdelis,
macys,
mavys,
todel,
paire,
der,
net,
schep,
organum,
harneys,
schipful,
ellern,
reynder,
mareys,
Norreis,
Etymology
From Old English sċēap, sċēp, from Proto-West Germanic *skāp, from Proto-Germanic *skēpą, of unknown origin.
Verbs referencing "schep"
English Nouns
sheep.
Translations