-ship
.
[OE.
-schipe
, AS.
-scipe
; akin to OFries.
-skipe
, OLG.
-skepi
, D.
-schap
, OHG.
-scaf
, G.
-schaft
. Cf.
Shape
,
, and
Landscape
.]
A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art; as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship, horsemanship.