Etymograph

English

shipmind

Compound of ship + mind.

A compound of ship + mind

Proto-Germanic *skipą ‘ship’

Proto-West Germanic *skip

Old English sċip

Middle English chip

English ship

Proto-Indo-European *men- ‘to think’

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Proto-Germanic *mundiz ‘memory’

Proto-West Germanic *mundi

Old English mynd ‘mind’

Middle English minde

English mind

Today it means

noun An intelligent entity (either an artificial intelligence or alien) used to control a spaceship.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “shipmind”. 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.

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