Etymology

Scheper

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Today it means: A surname from Dutch or German Low German. Full definition →

German Low German Scheper ← Dutch schipper
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The story

  1. Dutch · borrowed fromschipper“captain (of a ship)”
  2. German Low German · borrowed fromScheper“shepherd”
  3. English todayScheper

Borrowed from German Low German Scheper (“shepherd”) (compare English Shepherd) or from Dutch schipper (“captain (of a ship)”) (compare English Skipper).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.