Etymology

shipowner

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Today it means: Someone who owns a ship. Full definition →

English owner ← Middle English schip ← Old English scip
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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 Englishscip
  6. Middle Englishschip
  7. Englishship
  8. Englishowner
  9. English todayshipowner

From ship + owner.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.