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a native English suffix of nouns denoting condition, character, office, skill, etc.: clerkship; friendship; statesmanship.
Origin:
ME, OE -scipe; akin to shape; c. dial. Fris, dial. D schip
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-ship  
suff.  

    1. Quality, state, or condition: scholarship.

    2. Something that shows or possesses a quality, state, or condition: courtship.

  2. Rank, status, or office: professorship.

  3. Art, skill, or craft: penmanship.

  4. A collective body: readership.


[Middle English, from Old English -scipe.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

-ship 
O.E. -sciepe, Anglian -scip "state, condition of being," from P.Gmc. *-skapaz (cf. O.N. -skapr, O.Fris. -skip, Du. -schap, Ger. -schaft), from base *skap- "to create, ordain, appoint." Cognate with O.E. gesceape (see shape).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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