scipbryce
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Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From scip (“ship”) + bryce (“breaking, fragment”). Compare Faroese skipbrot, Dutch schipbreuk, and German Schiffbruch.
Noun
[edit]scipbryce m
- ship wreck; that which washes ashore from shipwreck; wreckage
Descendants
[edit]- Middle English: shipbreche
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “scip-bryce”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.