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Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/skol

This Proto-Brythonic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Brythonic

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin schola (“school”).[1][2][3] Parallel borrowing with Old Irish scol (“school”).[4]

Noun

*skol f

  1. school

Descendants
  • Breton: skol
  • Old Cornish: scol
  • Middle Welsh: yscol

References
  1. Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 96: “< Lat. schola”
  2. Lewis, Henry, Pedersen, Holger (1989) A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 59: “Olr. scol W. ysgol OCo. scol Br. skol ‘school’ : Lat. schola”
  3. Williams, Robert (1865) chapter 315, in Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum: A Dictionary of the Ancient Celtic Language of Cornwall, in which the Words are elucidated by Copious Examples from the Cornish Works now remaining; With Translations in English​, London: Trubner & Co., page scol
  4. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “scol”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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