Schiff

From Middle High German schif, from Old High German skif (“ship, barrel, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“ship, hollow object”). The sense “nave” is a semantic loan from Latin nāvis.

Cognate with Low German Schipp, West Frisian skip, Dutch schip, Yiddish שיף‎ (shif), English ship, Danish skib, Swedish skepp. Related also to Lithuanian skiẽbti (“to rip up”), Latvian škibît (“to cut, lop”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪf/
• Rhymes: -ɪf

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Schiff n (strong, genitive Schiffes or Schiffs, plural Schiffe, diminutive Schiffchen n or Schifflein n)

1. (nautical) ship

   Synonym: Boot

2. (architecture) nave [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: Kirchenschiff, Langhaus

3. (informal) a large, unwieldy car (e.g. an SUV)
4. (obsolete) vessel (for holding fluids)

   Synonym: Gefäß

5. (dated, regional) boiler (metal container for boiling water in some old stoves and ovens)

   Synonym: Wasserschiff

6. (priting) galley (tray)

   Synonym: Setzschiff

• schiffbar
• schiffen

• → Czech: šíf

• Schiff on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Schiff” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Schiff” in Duden online
• “Schiff” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Schiff” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Schiff”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
• “Schiff”, in PONS (in German), Stuttgart: PONS GmbH, 2001–2023

From Middle High German schif, from Old High German skif.

• IPA^(key): /ʃif/

Schiff n (plural Schiff)

1. ship

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary