skepp

From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą.

Sense 2 is a semantic loan from Latin navis.

• IPA^(key): /ɧɛp/

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skepp n

2. (nautical) a ship

   Synonym: (kenning) segelhäst

   • 1970, “Kalle Teodor”, Astrid Lindgren (lyrics), Georg Riedel (music)‎^[1]:

     I storm på Biskaya gick skeppet i kvav, skeppet han segla' [seglade], Kalle Teodor, och därför så vilar han nu i sin grav, vaggad av sjögräs, Kalle Teodor. Men en stormnatt kan du höra nån som ropar: Hej hå! Ifrån havets djup det kommer, och det låter så: Hej hå! Hej hå!

     In stormy weather in Biscay, the ship went down, the ship he was sailing, Kalle Teodor, and therefore he now rests in his grave, cradled ["rocked" (like in a cradle), but works as a translation] by seaweed, Kalle Teodor. But on a stormy night you can hear someone calling: Hey ho! From the ocean depths ["the sea's depth(s)" – intuitively "depth," though the plural is identical – singular is idiomatic in "dras ner i djupet" (be pulled into the depths [depth]), for example] it comes, and it sounds like that: Hey ho! Hey ho! [Or "and it sounds like so," but that is an idiomatic way of saying "and it sounds like that," whereas "and it sounds like this" would normally be put as "och det låter så här." The official lyrics have a colon.]

4. (architecture) a nave, an aisle (a large section of the open space in a church separated by columns)
   • 1913, August Strindberg, Tjänstekvinnans son [The Son of a Servant]‎^[2], Albert Bonniers förlag, accessed at Runeberg.org, archived from the original on 12 November 2019:

     Över [lindarna] höjde sig kyrkans skepp som ett berg.

     Above the lime-trees the nave of the church rose like a mountain.

   • 2015 March 19, Dick Harrison, “Det äldsta Stockholm [The Oldest Stockholm]”, in Svenska Dagbladet‎^[3], archived from the original on 21 September 2025:

     [Storkyrkan] var ursprungligen en treskeppig basilika utan torn, […] men byggdes under senmedeltiden ut till att få fem skepp.

     The Great Church was originally a three-aisled basilica without a tower, but during the late Middle Ages it was expanded to five aisles.

(ship):

(nave, aisle):

• båt
• färja
• fartyg
• sjöfart

• skepp in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• skepp in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• Svensk MeSH

• skepp on the Swedish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sv
• skepp (arkitektur) on the Swedish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sv
• skepp in Nordisk familjebok (2nd ed., 1917)