Etymograph

English

Shiprock

From ship + rock, from the peak's resemblance to a 19th-century clipper ship.

A compound of ship + rock

Proto-Germanic *skipą ‘ship’

Proto-West Germanic *skip

Old English sċip

Middle English chip

English ship

Old English *rocc

Middle English rocke ‘rock formation’

English rock

Today it means

name A monadnock rising nearly 1,583 feet (482.5 m) above the high-desert plain of the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Shiprock