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This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *skēpą.
Noun
*skāp n[1]
- sheep
Inflection
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Singular
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| Nominative
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*skāp(a)
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| Genitive
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*skāpas
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Singular
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Plural
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| Nominative
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*skāp(a)
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*skāpu
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| Accusative
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*skāp(a)
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*skāpu
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| Genitive
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*skāpas
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*skāpō
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| Dative
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*skāpē
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*skāpum
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| Instrumental
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*skāpu
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*skāpum
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Descendants
- Old English: sċēap, sċāp — West Saxon, sċēp — Late West Saxon, Anglian, late Kentish, sċīp — Northumbrian, sċǣp — early Kentish
- Middle English: schep, scheep, schepe, sheep, shepe, ssep (Kent, Southern)
- English: sheep (see there for further descendants)
- Middle Scots: scheip, cheip, cheipe, scheipe, sheip, schip, schipe, schap, scheap, scheep, schepe, sceyp, schiepe (rare)
- Yola: zheep, sheep
- Old Frisian: skēp
- Old Saxon: skāp, scāp
- Middle Low German: schâp
- Low German: Schaap, Schap
- German Low German: Schaap, Schåp, Schoap, Schaop, Schoop, Schap, Schop
- Hamburgisch: Schaap
- Westphalian:
- Ravensbergisch: Schåp
- Sauerländisch: Schōp
- Westmünsterländisch: Schaop
- Plautdietsch: Schop
- Old Dutch: skāp, scāp
- Middle Dutch: schâep
- Dutch: schaap
- Afrikaans: skaap
- Berbice Creole Dutch: skapu
- Jersey Dutch: sxâp
- Negerhollands: skaap, skap
- Sranan Tongo: skapu
- Aukan: sikapu
- Saramaccan: sikáfu, sikápu
- → Lokono: sjikapoe, shikápo
- → Warao: sikabo
- Limburgish: Schoëp, sjaop
- Old High German: scāf
- Middle High German: schāf
References
- ^ Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127: “*skāp”