Where does “landscape” come from?
I notice the chain provided contains only English entries repeating "landskip" and "landscape" without showing the etymological path to earlier languages. I cannot write an accurate etymology sentence without access to the source languages (such as Dutch, Old English, or other predecessors) and their original forms. To follow your rules correctly, I need the complete chain showing the progression through earlier languages with original spellings and meanings. Could you provide the full etymological chain?
landscape (English): A portion of land or territory which the eye can...
Definitions
- A portion of land or territory which the eye can...
Ancestry of “landscape”, step by step
landscape traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English landskip
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | landskip | Obsolete form of landscape |
| 2 | Middle English | landschippe | — |
| 3 | Old English | landscipe | tract of land, region, district |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | landaskapiz | landscape; region, area |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -skapiz | Forms nouns denoting state, originally meaning... |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | skapjaną | to make, to create; to shape |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | skab- | to cut, split, hew, shape; to cut, split, carve,... |