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.

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

schole

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

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.

schōle or schôle f

1. school (institute of learning)

• 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

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

schōle f

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

• Dutch: school
• Limburgish: sjool

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

schole

1. alternative form of scole (“school”)