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koulu

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Finnish

Alternative forms

  • skoulu (dialectal or archaic, rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Old Swedish [Term?] (compare Swedish skola), from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkou̯lu/, [ˈko̞u̯lu]
  • Rhymes: -oulu
  • Syllabification(key): kou‧lu
  • Hyphenation(key): kou‧lu

Noun

koulu

  1. school (an institution dedicated to teaching and learning, particularly one before college or university, or sometimes before lukio)
  2. school (a department/institute at a college or university)

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Derived terms

compounds

References

  • koulu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004, retrieved 2 July 2023
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    Ruppel, Klaas, editor (2021–2023), “koulu”, in Suomen etymologinen sanakirja [Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 72) (in Finnish), Kotimaisten kielten keskus, →ISSN
  • koulu”, in Vanhan kirjasuomen sanakirja [Dictionary of Old Literary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, incomplete, continuously updated), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten keskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2021, →ISSN, retrieved 25 April 2024.

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Ingrian

Etymology

Through influence of Finnish koulu.

Pronunciation

Noun

koulu

  1. (dialectal) alternative form of škoulu

Declension

More information Declension of (type 4/koivu, no gradation), singular ...

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 199
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