Etymology

sonship

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Today it means: The position or state of being a son. Full definition →

Proto-Germanic *skapjaną ← English son ← Middle English sone
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sew-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sewH-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*suHnús
  4. Proto-Germanic*sunuz
  5. Proto-West Germanic*sunu
  6. Old Englishsunu
  7. Middle Englishsone
  8. Englishson
  9. Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
  10. English todaysonship

From son + -ship.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.