-ship
a native english suffix of nouns denoting condition, character, office, skill, etc.:
clerkship; friendship; statesmanship.
-ship
suffix
indicating state or condition fellowship
indicating rank, office, or position lordship
indicating craft or skill horsemanship, workmanship, scholarship
word origin
old english -scipe; compare shape
-ship
o.e. -sciepe, anglian -scip “state, condition of being,” from p.gmc. –skapaz (cf. o.n. -skapr, o.fris. -skip, du. -schap, ger. -schaft), from base -skap- “to create, ordain, appoint.” cognate with o.e. gesceape (see shape).
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- -sided
adjective (in combination) having a side or sides as specified three-sided, many-sided
- -sie
-ie suffix used to form adjectives having the quality indicated: comfy/ creepy/ sw-nky used to form nouns diminutive, affectionate, or familiar versions of what is indicated: auntie/ cubby/ thingy/ tootsie/ folksy coming from the place or background indicated: arky/ okie/ yalie a person of the sort indicated: weirdie/ hippy/ sharpy -sie related terms -ie
- -sion
a noun suffix appearing in loanwords from latin: compulsion. compare -tion.
- -sis
a suffix appearing in loanwords from greek, where it was used to form from verbs abstract nouns of action, process, state, condition, etc.: thesis; aphesis. -sis suffix in gk. nouns denoting action, process, state, condition, from gk. -sis, which is identical in meaning with l. -entia, eng. -ing.
- -sk
-sk reflexive suffix in words of dan. origin (e.g. bask, lit. “to bathe oneself”), contracted from o.n. sik, reflexive pr-noun corresponding to goth. sik, o.h.g. sih, ger. sich “himself, herself, itself,” from pie base -se- (cf. l. se “himself”).