Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

-ship \-ship\ [OE. -schipe, AS. -scipe; akin to OFries. -skipe,
   OLG. -skepi, D. -schap, OHG. -scaf, G. -schaft. Cf. {Shape},
   n., and {Landscape}.]
   A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art;
   as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship,
   horsemanship.