different between skol vs skoal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish skål.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sk?l/

Interjection

skol

1. (originally and chiefly in Scotland) A drinking-toast; cheers.
   • 1990, Alasdair Gray, ‘A Free Man with a Pipe’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012), page 490:

     Again they notice he has impressed her and again he grows more cheerful, clinking his glass against hers and saying ‘Skol!’

Verb

skol (third-person singular simple present skols, present participle skolling, simple past and past participle skolled)

1. (Australia, slang, transitive) To down (a drink).
   • 2011, Richard Plant, Life's a Blur

     The Aussie skolled his beer, threw the Kiwi into the fireplace, and shot him.

Anagrams

• Klos, Kols

Breton

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin schola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sko?l/, /?sk??l/

Noun

skol f

1. school

Derived terms

• skol-vamm
• skol-veur

Cornish

Alternative forms

• scol

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin schola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sko?l]

Noun

skol f (plural skolyow)

1. school

Dalmatian

Etymology

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Noun

skol f

1. school

References

• Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Dutch school.

Noun

skol

1. school

English

Etymology

From Danish/Norwegian/Swedish skål, which is used when making a toast and also means "bowl".

Interjection

skoal

1. A toast when drinking, roughly equivalent to cheers.

Related terms

• skoaling

Translations

Verb

skoal (third-person singular simple present skoals, present participle skoaling, simple past and past participle skoaled)

1. To make such a toast.

Anagrams

• Lasko, kolas, sloka

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian sk?le, ultimately from Latin schola

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sko??l/

Noun

skoal c (plural skoalen, diminutive skoaltsje)

1. school (of fish)

Further reading

• “skoal”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011