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
  • IPA(key): /sˠkɔlʲ/
  • (Munster) IPA(key): /sˠkɞlʲ/[2]

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

Case Singular Plural
Nominative scoil scoileanna
Vocative a scoil a scoileanna
Genitive scoile scoileanna
Dative scoil scoileanna

Forms with the definite article

Case 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”)
  • 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”)

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 scol”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 72, page 38

Further reading
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “scoil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • Entries containing “scoil” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “scoil” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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