felaweschipe

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === felaschipe, felashipe, felauschip, felauschipe, felauship, felawe-schipe, felaweshipe, felawschip, felawship, felawshipe, felouschip, felowschip, felowschipe, felowschippe, felowshipe; felauscipe, felawscipe, feolaȝeschipe (Early Middle English); feolahschipe (AB language) falchipp, felashipp, feleschep, feleschyppe, feliship, fellasship, felship, felyship, felyshipp, felyshyp, ffeleshyppe (Late Middle English) felachep, felachipe, felauchip, felawschep, felechep, ffelacheppe (East Anglia); felauȝschipe (Southern); felauschupe (West Midland) felaushepe (Northeast Midland); felaȝschip, felaȝschyp, felawshepe, feloushep (Northwest Midland) felachup, felaghshepe, felahscap, felascip, felauscap, felauscip, feleschepe, fellyschipp (Northern) falloschip, faloschip, falouschip, falowschip, falowschipe, falowschype, fawlouschepe (Early Scots) === Etymology === Equivalent to felawe +‎ -schipe; either a new Middle English formation or a calque of Old Norse félagskapr, félagsskapr. First attested in c. 1225. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɛlau̯ʃip(ə)/, /ˈfɛlɔu̯ʃip(ə)/ IPA(key): /ˈfɛlaːʃip(ə)/, /ˈfɛləʃip(ə)/ (with reduction) === Noun === felaweschipe (plural felaweschipes) Partnership or companionship; the state of company: Close companionship; friendship, brotherhood. Camaraderie, comradeliness; the feeling of company: Religious or heavenly fellowship or communion. (rare) A romantic relationship or connection. A fellowship or company; a group of companions: A group of followers (especially as a military force). A crew or team (e.g. of a vessel). A religious or heavenly community of believers. A corporation or organisation; an organised collective of people: A religious or monastic community. A guild; a mercantile association or organisation. The fellows of a university or college. (rare) The act of sex or intercourse. (rare) Similarity, connection (or something that is connected). (rare) A group or set. ==== Descendants ==== English: fellowship Middle Scots: falloschip, fallowschip, fallowschipe ==== References ==== “fē̆lauship(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 31 August 2019. “fellowship, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. “fallowschip, falowschip, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.