means A large watercraft built to carry people or cargo across open water, or the verb for sending goods off to their destination.

from From Old English 'scip,' with cousins all across the Germanic family — Old Norse 'skip,' Dutch 'schip,' German 'Schiff' — pointing back to a shared Proto-Germanic root 'skipa-.' The deeper origin is murky; some link it to a notion of a hollowed-out or cut log, the first boats being trees carved into vessels, but that's an educated guess rather than settled fact. The 'send goods' meaning is much later, sailing in on the back of the noun once shipping cargo became routine.