Schiff

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proper noun

A surname from German.

OriginGerman Schiff ← Middle High German schif ← Old High German skif →
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Meanings

proper nounSchiff (plural Schiffs)

plural Schiffs

  1. A surname from German.
    1 more example

    The resolution accuses [Adam] Schiff of misleading the American people while pursuing the congressional investigation into Russia and the Trump campaign as the then-chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and for actions Schiff took leading up to the former president’s first impeachment. Schiff has dismissed the allegations as “false and defamatory.”

    2023 June 21, Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, “House votes to censure Democratic congressman who led Trump investigations”, in CNN, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2023
    1. A Jewish surname from Yiddish

Origin

  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. EnglishSchiff

Borrowed from German Schiff.

More words from German

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Translations

French Schiff
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German Schiff
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Yiddish שיף
  • שיף (Schiff)Translations
Cite this entry
APA

Schiff. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Schiff

MLA

“Schiff.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Schiff. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Schiff,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Schiff.

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