Misshapen comes from mis- ('badly') + shapen, the old past participle of shape, from Old English scieppan ('to create, form'). The etymological trail includes Old English mis- and Old English scieppan. As an adjective, misshapen means badly or abnormally formed; deformed. The same family is visible in derived forms such as misshapenness and related forms such as misshape, shape, and shapen. Morphologically, the word is built from the elements named in its history, so the modern form preserves a visible compound, prefix, or suffix structure.