schole

English

Noun

schole (plural scholes)

1. Obsolete spelling of school.
   • 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, A Preface to the Reader:

     Not long after our sitting doune, I haue strange newes brought me, sayth M. Secretarie, this morning, that diuerse Scholers of Eaton, be runne awaie from the Schole, for feare of beating.

Anagrams

• Cohles, Echols, HELOCs, Loesch, c-holes, loches

Dutch

Verb

schole

1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of schuilen
2. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of scholen

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ).

The regular outcome of Proto-West Germanic *skōlu would be Middle Dutch schoele. While attested, this form is very rare, and – importantly – the spelling oe was also used for oo in Middle Dutch. No modern dialect (outside of Low Saxon areas) appears to continue such a form. Instead, the dialects vary between lengthened ō (e.g. Maastricht Limburgish sjaol) and originally long ô (e.g. other Limburgish sjoel, sjoeal). Similar deviations are also found in Ripuarian Schull and Luxembourgish Schoul.

Noun

schōle or schôle f

1. school (institute of learning)

Inflection

Weak feminine noun

	singular	plural
nominative	schole	scholen
accusative	schole	scholen
genitive	schole, scholen	scholen
dative	schole, scholen	scholen

Descendants

• Dutch: school
  • Afrikaans: skool
    • → Northern Ndebele: isikolo
    • → Nǀuu: skoolsi, skualsi
    • → Sotho: sekolo
    • → Southern Ndebele: isikolo
    • → Shona: chikoro (through a Nguni intermediate)
    • → Tsonga: xikolo
    • → Venda: tshikolo
    • → Xhosa: isikolo
    • → Zulu: isikole
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: skul, sulu
  • Negerhollands: skoel, skool
  • Petjo: skola, sekola
  • → Aukan: sikoo
  • →? Caribbean Hindustani: skul
  • → Kwinti: skoro, skoo
  • → Lokono: sulu
  • → Papiamentu: skol, skool
  • → Saramaccan: sikoò
  • → Sranan Tongo: skoro
    • → Dutch: skorro
    • → Wayana: sikoro
  • → Trió: sikora
• Limburgish: sjoel, sjoeal
• West Flemish: schole
• Zealandic: schole

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch *skola, from Proto-West Germanic *skolu, from Proto-Germanic *skulō.

Noun

schōle f

1. school, throng, swarm
2. gathering, meeting

Inflection

Weak feminine noun

	singular	plural
nominative	schōle	schōlen
accusative	schōle	schōlen
genitive	schōle, schōlen	schōlen
dative	schōle, schōlen	schōlen

Descendants

• Dutch: school
• Limburgish: sjool

Further reading

• “scole”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “schole (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Middle English

Noun

schole

1. alternative form of scole (“school”)