Etymology

Schiff

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

German Schiff ← Middle High German schif ← Old High German skif
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sek-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*skey-der.?
  3. Proto-Germanic*skipą
  4. Proto-West Germanic*skip
  5. Old High Germanskif
  6. Middle High Germanschif
  7. GermanSchiff
  8. English todaySchiff

Borrowed from German Schiff.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.