-sciepe

Meaning

1. noun-forming suffix: -ship

   Ða toforan monan upgonge þa cwomon þær Scorpiones þæt wyrmcyn swa hie ær gewunelice wæron toweard þæs wætersciepes.

   Then before moonrise those vermin called scorpions came, as they were accustomed, toward the water source.

   c. 1000, The Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle:

Declension