## Meanings
1. A building or place where goods or services are sold to the public.
2. To go to shops to buy things.
3. A place where things are made or repaired; a workshop or garage.

## Examples
- They bought it at a shop on the beach.
- I shop every Friday when there are good deals to be had.
- The car's in the shop right now for repairs.

## Synonyms
- metalwork
- store

## Derived Forms
- outshop
- shoppability
- shoppable
- shopper
- unshopped
- vaccine-shop

## Related Forms
- shoppe

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: shoppe
- Root: sċoppa
- Root: *skupp-
- Root: *skub-

## Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *skup- Old English scoppa Middle English shoppe English shop From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”). Cognate with Dutch schop (“spade, kick”), German Schuppen (“shed”), German Schober (“barn”), French échoppe (“booth, shop”) (< Germanic). The verb is denominal. The noun senses “act of shopping”, “purchased items” are backformed from the verb.

## AI Etymology
The etymological chain for shop runs Proto-Germanic *skup- Old English scoppa Middle English shoppe English shop From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”). Cognate with Dutch schop (“spade, kick”), German Schuppen (“shed”), German Schober (“barn”), French échoppe (“booth, shop”) (< Germanic). The verb is denominal. The noun senses “act of shopping”, “purchased items” are backformed from the verb. Important forms in the word's history include Middle English shoppe, Old English sċoppa, Proto-Germanic *skupp-, Proto-Indo-European *skub-. In current use it includes senses such as A building or place where goods or services are sold to the public and To go to shops to buy things.

## Topics
- Shopping & Services

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