Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-West Germanic *gaskap
3. Old English ġesċeap
4. Proto-Germanic *skēpą
5. Proto-West Germanic *skāp
6. Old English sċeap
7. Middle English schap
8. English shape
9. From Middle English schap, schape, from Old English ġesceap (“shape, form, created being, creature, creation, dispensation, fate, condition, sex, gender, genitalia”), from Proto-West Germanic *ga- + *skap, from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *skapą (“shape, nature, condition”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to split, cut”).
10. The verb is from Middle English shapen, schapen, from Old English scieppan (“to shape, form, make, create, assign, arrange, destine, order, adjudge”), from Proto-West Germanic *skappjan, from Proto-Germanic *skapjaną (“to create”), from the noun.
11. The noun is cognate with Middle Dutch schap (“form”), Middle High German geschaf (“creature”), Icelandic skap (“state, condition, temper, mood”). The verb is cognate with Dutch scheppen, German schaffen, Swedish skapa (“create, make”), Norwegian Bokmål skape (“create”). Doublet of -ship. See: Old English '
scieppan', Proto-Germanic '
*skapjaną', Dutch '
scheppen', German, old spelling '
schaffen', Swedish '
skapa', Norwegian '
skape'.
Verbs referencing "shape"
Albanian
hap, German, old spelling
schaffen, Dutch
scheppen, Norwegian, nynorsk
skapa, Alemannic German
schaffe, German, Pennsylvania
schaffe, Danish
skabe, Luxembourgish
schafen, Danish
skaffe, Norwegian
skaffe.