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sgoil

sgoil

Scottish Gaelic

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 0 901771 92 9
  • A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Complied by Malcolm MacLennan)