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- suffix
form ,formation ,shape - suffix
scene ,picture ,view - suffix A specific type of
space
Etymologies
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Abstracted from landscape, the suffix representing Middle Dutch -schap ("-ship"), from Old Dutch -skap ("-ship"), from Proto-Germanic *-skapiz (“-ship”), from Proto-Germanic *skapaz (“shape, form”). Cognate with Modern Dutch -schap ("-ship"), German -schaft ("-ship"), Swedish -skap ("-ship"), Old English -sceap, -scipe ("-ship"). More at -ship, shape.
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