scip

scip

1. (Northern or Early Middle English) alternative form of schip

From Proto-West Germanic *skip.

Cognate with Old Frisian skip, Old Saxon skip, Old High German skif, Old Norse skip, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐍀 (skip).

• IPA^(key): /ʃip/

sċip n

1. ship
   • Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Manuscript E, year 992

     And sē here þā ætbærst, būtan ān sċip þǣr man ofslōg.

     And then the army escaped, except for one ship whose crew was slain.

   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     An. DCCLXXXVII Hēr nam Byrhtrīc cing Offan dohtor Ēadburge. ⁊ on his dagum cōman ǣrest III sċipa Norðmanna, ⁊ þā sē ġerēfa þǣr tō rād, ⁊ hīe wolde drīfan tō þǣs cinges tūne... Þæt wǣron þā ǣrestan sċipu Denisċra manna þe Angelcynnes land ġesōhte.

     Year 787 In this King Brightric kidnapped Offa's daughter Eadburg. And in those days came the first three Norse ships, intending to drive off the reeve and raid the king's town...Those were the first Danish ships to come to the land of the Angles.

Strong a-stem:

• see Thesaurus:sċip

• Middle English: schip, chip, chippe, schepe, schipp, schippe, schup, schyp, schyppe, shepe, ship, shippe, shup, shuppe, shyp, shype, shyppe, sship, ssip, scip, scippe, scyp, scyppe
  • English: ship
  • Scots: ship
  • Yola: zhip

• IPA^(key): /ʃiːp/

sċīp n (Northumbrian)

1. alternative form of sċēap

Campbell states also (§187) that this form occurs once in the Mercian part of the Rushworth Gospels; sċēp is the otherwise typical form in Mercian.

Strong a-stem:

scip n

1. alternative spelling of skip