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scoil.

school (educational institution)

5 characters1 syllables approx.Gaeilge language

Meaning & usage

noun/sˠkɔlʲ//sˠkɞlʲ/Munster

  1. school (educational institution)

    feminine

  2. school (followers of a particular doctrine)

    feminine · literary

  3. assembly, body

    feminine

  4. shoal, school (of fish)

    feminine
Where this word comes from

From Old Irish scol (compare Scottish Gaelic sgoil), from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ). The sense “school of fish” is either a borrowing from Middle English scole, schole (in the relevant sense), from Middle Dutch scole (“swarm of animals”), from Proto-West Germanic *skulu (“troop, group”); or a semantic loan from English school under the mistaken assumption that the “group of fish” sense is etymologically identical to the “educational institution” sense.

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