scipe

Old English

Etymology

Related to the Old English word for marriage, sinscipe.

Noun

scipe m (-es,-as)

rank, office, dignity, position or payment.

Descendants

Middle English: manscipe

References

An Anglo-Saxon dictionary, based on the manuscript collections of the late Joseph Bosworth; edited and enlarged by T. Northcote Toller

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