scheip

• cheip, cheipe, scheipe, sheip, schip, schipe
• schap, scheap, scheep, schepe, sceyp, schiepe (rare)

Inherited from Middle English schep, from Old English sċēap, sċēp, from Proto-West Germanic *skāp, from Proto-Germanic *skēpą.

• IPA^(key): /ʃiːp/

scheip (plural scheip)

1. sheep (ruminant of the genus Ovis)
2. sheep (religious adherent)

• Scots: sheep

• “s(c)hep(e, s(c)heip, s(c)hip, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.