sgoil

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Irish

Noun

sgoil f (genitive singular sgoile, nominative plural sgoileanna, sgoileacha or sgolta)

  1. Obsolete spelling of scoil.

Declension

Declension of sgoil (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative sgoil sgoileanna
vocative a sgoil a sgoileanna
genitive sgoile sgoileanna
dative sgoil sgoileanna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an sgoil na sgoileanna
genitive na sgoile na sgoileanna
dative leis an sgoil
don sgoil 		leis na sgoileanna

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish scol (compare Irish scoil), from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ).

Noun

sgoil f (genitive singular sgoile or sgoileadh, plural sgoiltean)

  1. school, seminary
    a’ dol don sgoil ― going to school
  2. education, learning, knowledge
    A bheil sgoil aige?
    Is he educated?
    (literally, “Has he education?”)
    Chan eil sgoil agam air.
    I have no knowledge of it.
  3. science, literature

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “sgoil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC
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