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English

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A domesticsheep (Ovis aries)
Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)
Sheep (plural)

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited fromMiddle Englishschep,schepe, fromAnglian Old Englishsċēp (West Saxonsċēap), fromProto-West Germanic*skāp, fromProto-Germanic*skēpą, of unknown origin.

Perhaps from the sameScythian word (compareOssetianцӕу(cæw,“goat”),Persianچپش(čapiš,“yearling goat”))[1] which was borrowed intoAlbanian ascjap,sqap(“buck”) and into Slavic (comparePolishcap). After Kroonen,*skēpą is instead from the root ofProto-Germanic*skabaną(“to scratch”) viaKluge's law.[2]

Cognates

Cognate withScotssheep(“sheep”),Yolasheep,zheep(“sheep”),North Frisianschep,schäip,Sjip(“sheep”),Saterland FrisianSchäip,Skäip(“sheep”),West Frisianskiep(“sheep”),Alemannic GermanSchaf,Schooff(“sheep”),BavarianSchof,Schouf,Schåf(“sheep”),Dutchschaap(“sheep”),GermanSchaf(“sheep”),German Low GermanSchaap(“sheep”),LimburgishSchoëp,sjaop(“sheep”),LuxembourgishSchof(“sheep”),Vilamoviansiöf(“sheep”),Yiddishשאָף(shof,“sheep”).

Alternative forms

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Noun

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sheep (countable anduncountable,pluralsheepor(nonstandard, humorous or childish)sheeps)

  1. (countable) Awoollyruminant of the genusOvis.
    • 1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, inRailway Magazine, page449:
      There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountainsheep graze unconcernedly.
  2. (countable, strictly) A member of thedomestic speciesOvis aries, the most well-known species ofOvis.
  3. (countable) A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.
    Synonyms:lamb,ovine;see alsoThesaurus:shy person
  4. (countable, chiefly Christianity, chiefly plural) Areligiousadherent, a member of acongregation or religiouscommunity (compareflock).
    • 1990, Dave Mustaine, "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due", Megadeth,Rust in Peace.
      And fools like me, who cross the sea and come to foreign lands / Ask thesheep, for their beliefs do you kill on God's command?
  5. (uncountable)Sheepskinleather.
  6. (countable, speech recognition) A person who is easily understood by aspeech recognition system; contrasted withgoat.
Synonyms
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Translations
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animal—see alsoram
one who behaves shyly

See also

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Further reading

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Etymology 2

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Noun

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sheep

  1. (chiefly humorous)plural ofshoop

References

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  1. ^Vladimir Orel,A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, s.vv. "*keppōn", "*skēpan" (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 213, 340
  2. ^Guus Kroonen (2011),The Proto-Germanicn-stems: a study in diachronic morphophonology[1], Rodopi,→ISBN.

Anagrams

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Middle English

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Noun

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sheep

  1. alternative form ofschep

Scots

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Etymology

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Inherited fromMiddle Scotsscheip, fromMiddle Englishschep, fromOld Englishscēap.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sheep (pluralsheep)

  1. sheep(woolly ruminant of the genusOvis)
    • 1983,William Lorimer, transl.,The New Testament in Scots, Edinburgh: Canongate, published2001,→ISBN,→OCLC,Luke 15:4,page135:
      "Whilk ane o ye", qo he, "at hes a hundersheep, an ane o them gaes will, will lae the ither ninetie-nine thereout i the muirs an gae seek the ane at hes gane will or aince he finnds it?[…]
      "Which one of you", he said, "who has a hundredsheep, when one of them gets lost, will abandon the other ninety-nine out in the moors to go and look for the one who's got lost until he finds it? […]

Yola

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Noun

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sheep

  1. alternative form ofzheep
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, inSONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 9, page88:
      Wourlok'd an anooree, lick lhuskès o'sheep.
      Tumbled on one-another, like flocks ofsheep.

References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page88
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