scoil

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish scol[1] (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-Germanic *skulō (“crowd”); 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.

Pronunciation

Noun

scoil f (genitive singular scoile, nominative plural scoileanna or scolta)

  1. school (educational institution)
  2. (literary) school (followers of a particular doctrine)
  3. (deliberative) assembly, body
  4. shoal, school (of fish)
    Synonyms: báire, ráth

Declension

Declension of scoil (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative scoil scoileanna
vocative a scoil a scoileanna
genitive scoile scoileanna
dative scoil scoileanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an scoil na scoileanna
genitive na scoile na scoileanna
dative leis an scoil
don scoil 		leis na scoileanna

Derived terms

  • ardscoil (“high school”)
  • buachaill scoile (“schoolboy”)
  • bunscoil (“primary school”)
  • cailín scoile (“schoolgirl”)
  • ceolscoil (“music school”)
  • daonscoil (“folk school”)
  • Gaelscoil (“Irish-medium school”)
  • gairmscoil (“vocational school”)
  • leabhar scoile (“school-book”)
  • máistreás scoile f (“schoolmistress”)
  • mála scoile (“school-bag”)
  • meánscoil (“secondary school”)
  • múinteoir scoile (“school-teacher”)
  • naíscoil (“(Irish-language) nursery school”)
  • ollscoil (“university”)
  • páiste scoile (“school-child”)
  • pobalscoil (“community school”)
  • scoil cheartúcháin (“reformatory”)
  • scoil cheoil (“music school”)
  • scoil chois claí
  • scoil chónaithe (“boarding school”)
  • scoil chuimsitheach (“comprehensive school”)
  • scoil Domhnaigh (“Sunday school”)
  • scoil ghairid
  • scoil ghearr (“hedge-school”)
  • scoil ghramadaí (“grammar school”)
  • scoil lae (“day-school”)
  • scoil naíonán (“infant school”)
  • scoil oíche (“night-school”)
  • scoil saothair (“industrial school”)
  • scoil scairte
  • scoilcheantar (“school (catchment) area”)

Descendants

  • →⇒ Fingallian: sculloge

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 scol”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 24, page 13
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 72, page 38

Further reading

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈskolʲ]

Noun

scoil

  1. inflection of scol:
    1. accusative/dative singular
    2. nominative/vocative/accusative dual
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