-ship

1.
a native English suffix of nouns denoting condition, character, office, skill, etc.:
clerkship; friendship; statesmanship.
Origin
Middle English, Old English -scipe; akin to shape; cognate with dialectal Frisian, dialectal Dutch schip
British Dictionary definitions for -ship

-ship

suffix
1.
indicating state or condition: fellowship
2.
indicating rank, office, or position: lordship
3.
indicating craft or skill: horsemanship, workmanship, scholarship
Word Origin
Old English -scipe; compare shape
Word Origin and History for -ship

word-forming element meaning "quality, condition; act, power, skill; office, position; relation between," Middle English -schipe, from Old English -sciepe, Anglian -scip "state, condition of being," from Proto-Germanic *-skapaz (cf. Old Norse -skapr, Danish -skab, Old Frisian -skip, Dutch -schap, German -schaft), from *skap- "to create, ordain, appoint," from PIE root *(s)kep- (see shape (v.)).