sheep

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A domestic sheep

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Old English scēap, from Proto-Germanic *skēpan (compare West Frisian skiep, Dutch schaap, German Schaf), beside *keppôn (compare Old Norse kjappi (he-goat), German dialect Kippe (newborn calf)), from Sarmato-Scythian (compare Ossetian цæу (cæw, goat), Persian چپش (čapiš, yearling goat)).[1] The same Iranian word was borrowed into Albanian cjap, sqap (he-goat) and Slavic (cf. Polish cap).

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sheep (plural sheep)

  1. A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.
  2. A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.
  3. Plural form of shoop.

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  1. ^ Vladimir Orel, A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, s.vv. "*keppōn", "*skēpan" (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 213, 340.

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sheep (plural sheep)

  1. sheep
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