| 1 | Proto-West Germanic | -skapi | Forms nouns denoting state, originally meaning... |
| 2 | Proto-Germanic | -skapiz | Forms nouns denoting state, originally meaning... |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | skapjaną | to make, to create; to shape |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | skab- | to cut, split, hew, shape; to cut, split, carve,... |