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-scape

-scape

See also: scape

English

Suffix

-scape

  1. form, formation, shape
  2. scene, picture, view
  3. A specific type of space

Derived terms

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Etymology

Abstracted from landscape, the suffix representing Middle Dutch -schap ‎(“-ship”), from Old Dutch -skap ‎(“-ship”), from Proto-Germanic *-skapiz ‎(“-ship”), from Proto-Germanic *skapaz ‎(“shape, form”). Cognate with Modern Dutch -schap ‎(“-ship”), German -schaft ‎(“-ship”), Swedish -skap ‎(“-ship”), Old English -sceap, -scipe ‎(“-ship”). More at -ship, shape.

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