Other Methods
- Reverse Reduced: 6+4+8+5+4+9+8+1+9+2 = 56
- Reverse Ordinal: 15+22+26+23+22+9+8+19+18+11 = 173
- Jewish: 20+5+1+4+5+80+90+8+9+60 = 282
- English: 72+30+6+24+30+108+114+48+54+96 = 582
Research
- Etymology:
- 1821:
- ("position of a leader, command")
- From leader + -ship:
- Leader:
- Old English lædere:
- ("one who leads, one first or most prominent")
- Agent noun from lædan:
- ("to guide, conduct")
- Cognate with Old Frisian ledera
- Dutch leider
- Old High German leitari
- German Leiter
- As a title for the head of an authoritarian state, from 1918 is late 13c: translating Führer, Duce, caudillo, etc.
- ("writing or statement meant to begin a discussion or debate")
- In modern use often short for leading article (1807):
- ("opinion piece in a British newspaper") (leader in this sense attested from 1837). The golf course leader board so called from 1970.
- Ship:
- Old English scip:
- ("ship, boat")
- From Proto-Germanic *skipa:
- Source also of:
- Old Norse
- Old Saxon
- Old Frisian
- Gothic skip
- Danish skib
- Swedish skepp
- Middle Dutch scip
- Dutch schip
- Old High German skif
- German Schiff
- Others suggest perhaps originally:
- ("tree cut out or hollowed out")
- Now a vessel of considerable size, adapted to navigation; the Old English word was used for small craft as well, and definitions changed over time; in 19c., distinct from a boat in having a bowsprit and three masts, each with a lower, top, and topgallant mast. French esquif, Italian schifo are Germanic loan-words.
- Phrase ships that pass in the night is from Longfellow's poem "Elizabeth" in "Tales of a Wayside Inn" (1863). Figurative use of nautical runs a tight ship (i.e., one that does not leak) is attested from 1965.
- Sense extended by late 19c:
- ("characteristics necessary to be a leader, capacity to lead")
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