Schiff
English
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editProper noun
editSchiff (plural Schiffs)
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editProper noun
editSchiff m or f by sense
German
editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German schif, from Old High German skif (“ship, barrel, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“ship, hollow object”). The sense “nave” is a semantic loan from Latin nāvis.
Cognate with Low German Schipp, West Frisian skip, Dutch schip, Yiddish שיף (shif), English ship, Danish skib, Swedish skepp. Related also to Lithuanian skiẽbti (“to rip up”), Latvian škibît (“to cut, lop”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editSchiff m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Schiffs or (with an article) Schiff, feminine genitive Schiff, plural Schiffs)
- Schiff: a surname originating as an occupation The occupational surname taken up by mariners and boatmen.
- a Jewish surname from Yiddish [in turn from German]
Descendants
editNoun
editSchiff n (strong, genitive Schiffes or Schiffs, plural Schiffe, diminutive Schiffchen n or Schifflein n)
- (nautical) ship
- Synonym: Boot
- (architecture) nave [from 16th c.]
- Synonyms: Kirchenschiff, Langhaus
- (informal) a large, unwieldy car (e.g. an SUV)
- (obsolete) vessel (for holding fluids)
- Synonym: Gefäß
- (dated, regional) boiler (metal container for boiling water in some old stoves and ovens)
- Synonym: Wasserschiff
- (printing) galley (tray)
- Synonym: Setzschiff
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edit- Außenschiff
- Containerschiff
- Fährschiff
- Flussschiff
- Frachtschiff
- Handelsschiff
- Hauptschiff
- Kirchenschiff
- Kontainerschiff
- Kreuzfahrtschiff
- Kreuzschiff
- Kriegsschiff
- Küstenschiff
- Langschiff
- Längsschiff
- Nebenschiff
- Passagierschiff
- Querschiff
- Reiseschiff
- Schiffahrt
- Schiffbruch
- Schifffahrt
- Schiffsanker
- Schiffsbesatzung
- Schiffshebewerk
- Schiffsheck
- Schiffskapitän
- Schiffsreise
- Schiffsrumpf
- Schiffsverkehr
- schippern
- Segelschiff
- Seitenschiff
- Setzschiff
- Skipper
- Traumschiff
- Wasserschiff
- Wüstenschiff
Descendants
edit- → Czech: šíf
Further reading
edit- Schiff on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Schiff” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Schiff” in Duden online
- “Schiff” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Schiff” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- “Schiff”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
- “Schiff”, in PONS (in German), Stuttgart: PONS GmbH, 2001–2024
Hunsrik
editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German schif, from Old High German skif.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editSchiff n (plural Schiff)
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