The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσχολή
- Latin · derived fromschola
- Old High German · derived fromscuola“school”
- Yiddish · borrowed fromשול“school, synagogue”
- English todayshul
Borrowed from Yiddish שול (shul, “school, synagogue”), from Old High German scuola (“school”), from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ). Doublet of schola and school.
Words from the same roots
Yiddishשול all →
shulgoer
Old High Germanscuola all →
shulgoer
Latinschola all →
scholashulgoer
Ancient Greekσχολή all →
schoolscholarshulgoer
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.