English
shipling
From ship + -ling.
Formed from ship + -ling
Proto-Germanic *skipą ‘ship’
Proto-West Germanic *skip
Old English sċip
Middle English chip
English ship
Today it means
noun A small or miniature ship; a boat.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “shipling”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / shipling