The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*skupīnō“stall”
- Old English · inherited fromscypen“cow-shed, stall, shippen”
- Middle English · inherited fromschipne
- English todayshippen
From Middle English schipne, schepne, schüpene, from Old English scypen (“cow-shed, stall, shippen”), from Proto-Germanic *skupīnō (“stall”), diminutive of *skup- (“shed, barn”). Related to shop, shepen.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.