different between skol vs skool

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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

Noun

skool (plural skools)

1. Misspelling of school.

Usage notes

• Sensational spelling, used in graffiti etc.

Derived terms

• old skool

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch school, from Middle Dutch schôle, from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek ????? (skhol?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk???l/

Noun

skool (plural skole, diminutive skooltjie)

1. school

Derived terms

• dorpskool
• hoërskool
• kleuterskool
• laerskool

Descendants

• ? Northern Ndebele: isikolo
• ? N?uu: skool
• ? Sotho: sekolo
• ? Southern Ndebele: isikolo
• ? Shona: chikoro (through a Nguni intermediate)
• ? Tsonga: xikolo
• ? Venda: tshikolo
• ? Xhosa: isikolo
• ? Zulu: isikole

Finnish

Etymology

From Swedish skål.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sko?l/, [?s?ko??l]
• Rhymes: -o?l
• Syllabification: skool

Interjection

skool!

1. cheers (toast)

Synonyms

• kippis