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Irish
Noun
sgoil f (genitive singular sgoile, nominative plural sgoileanna, sgoileacha or sgolta)
- Obsolete spelling of scoil.
Declension
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish scol (compare Irish scoil), from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ).
Pronunciation
Noun
sgoil f (genitive singular sgoile or sgoileadh, plural sgoiltean)
- school, seminary
- a’ dol don sgoil ― going to school
- 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.
- science, literature
Derived terms
References
- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis), Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
- ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
- ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN
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