| 1 | English | -ship | Appended to a noun to form a new noun denoting a... |
| 2 | Middle English | -schipe | Affixed to nouns and adjectives to form nouns... |
| 3 | Old English | -sċiepe | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | -skapi | Forms nouns denoting state, originally meaning... |
| 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,... |