Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skipą

Etymology
etymology.

One theory derives it from,. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. ( has been considered related as well, but the phonetics pose difficulties.) The original meaning inherited from 🇨🇬 was likely “hollowed tree”, and all daughter languages agree in the meaning “ship”, thus the specified meaning “ship” is assumed for 🇨🇬, however the 🇨🇬 word also had the meaning “hollow object” and described various vessels and containers, so the 🇨🇬 word could also have been used in a more generic fashion. Moreover, one meaning does not have to exclude the other by rule. Compare the development of 🇨🇬, also from an extension of ; cf. also unrelated, source of.

Kroonen instead claims that this word would rather be a loanword from.

Noun

 * 1)  ship
 * 2)  any hollow or concave manmade object
 * 3)  vessel, tub
 * 1)  vessel, tub