schip – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of schip

Noun: schip

Sg.	schip
Pl.	schipes; schippes

Genitive

Sg.	schipes; schippes
Pl.	schipes; schippes; schipene

Dative

Sg.	schipe
Pl.	schipen

Sample Sentences

Now is þat ſchip. þat bar þe flour. / Selden seȝe. and sone foꝛȝete. (Now that ship which bore the acme is / Rarely seen and quickly forgotten.) [c. 1390, “Edward þe þridde”, in Sowlehele (Vernon Lyrics, Bodleian MS. Eng. poet. a. 1), Worcestershire, folio 411, recto; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:]

Nouns inflected like schip

schip,

Etymology

Inherited from Old English scip, from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą. See: Old English Nouns 'scip', Old English Nouns 'scip'.

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