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Where does “schape” come from?
schape (Middle English) comes from Old English ġesceap, from Proto-West Germanic *gaskap.
Ancestry of “schape”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Old English
ġesceap
shape, form, created being, creature, creation,...
2
Proto-West Germanic
*gaskap
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