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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.]
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-ship

-ship\ [OE. -schipe, AS. -scipe; akin to OFries. -skipe, OLG. -skepi, D. -schap, OHG. -scaf, G. -schaft. Cf. Shape, n., and Landscape.] A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art; as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship, horsemanship.
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Language Translation for : -ship
Spanish: barco, buque, navío, embarcación,
German: das Schiff,
Japanese: 船
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-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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