English
shipmanship
From shipman + -ship.
Formed from shipman + -ship
Proto-Indo-European *mon- ‘man’
Proto-Germanic *mann- ‘human, human being, person, individual’
Proto-Germanic *skipamann- ‘sailor’
Old English scipmann ‘shipman, mariner, sailor, rower’
Middle English schipman ‘sailor’
English shipman
Today it means
noun The role or skills of a shipman.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “shipmanship”. 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 / shipmanship