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iirc (eg, second hand from the book "the adventures of English") ship came from norse skip, via the same sound-shift that separates shirt and skirt - but is why
by soneil 6y ago
iirc (eg, second hand from the book "the adventures of English") ship came from norse skip, via the same sound-shift that separates shirt and skirt - but is why the K in the term skipper.
- pmiller2 6y agoThat sounds correct to me. In Old English, the word is spelled "scip," pronounced the same as "ship," and quite close to how "skip" is pronounced in Old Norse. Old Norse and Old English were actually mutually intelligible, BTW, kind of like modern day Swedish and Norwegian.
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