sgoil

Irish

Noun

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

  1. Obsolete spelling of scoil

Declension

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Noun

sgoil f (genitive singular sgoile, 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

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Complied by Malcolm MacLennan)
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