ollscoil

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Irish

ollscoil

Etymology

From oll- (“upper, greater”) +‎ scoil (“school”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ollscoil f (genitive singular ollscoile, nominative plural ollscoileanna)

  1. university (institution of higher education)

Declension

Declension of ollscoil (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative ollscoil ollscoileanna
vocative a ollscoil a ollscoileanna
genitive ollscoile ollscoileanna
dative ollscoil ollscoileanna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an ollscoil na hollscoileanna
genitive na hollscoile na n-ollscoileanna
dative leis an ollscoil
don ollscoil 		leis na hollscoileanna

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of ollscoil
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ollscoil n-ollscoil hollscoil not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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