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How are ladders and schools connected?<\/p>\n
Well, in Welsh there is one word that means both ladder and school: ysgol<\/strong> [\u02c8\u0259sg\u0254l].<\/p>\n The word ysgol<\/strong>, meaning ladder, comes from the Middle Welsh yscawl<\/em> [\u02c8\u04d9sgaul] (ladder), from Latin sc\u0101la<\/em> (ladder, stairs), from scand\u014d<\/em> (I climb, ascend, mount), from the the Proto-Indo-European *skend-<\/em> (to jump).<\/p>\n Related words include: <\/p>\n – ysgol do\/grib = roof-ladder The word ysgol<\/strong>, meaning school, comes from the Middle Welsh yscol<\/em> (school), from the Latin schola<\/em><\/a> (leisure time given to learning; schooltime; a school; a student body; an art gallery), from the Ancient Greek \u03c3\u03c7\u03bf\u03bb\u03ae<\/em><\/a> (skhol\u1e17 – leisure, free time, rest; lecture, disputation, discussion; philosophy; school, lecture hall).<\/p>\n Related words include: <\/p>\n – ysgol fabanod = nursery school A similar-sounding, though unrelated word is (y)sg\u00f4l<\/strong> [\u02c8\u0259sgo\u02d0l] (squall; disaster, damage; disturbance, commotion, quarrel).<\/p>\n Sources: Wiktionary<\/a>, Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru<\/a>, Old and Middle Welsh<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Diolch i Diana i awgrymu’r pwnc ‘ma.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How are ladders and schools connected? Well, in Welsh there is one word that means both ladder and school: ysgol [\u02c8\u0259sg\u0254l]. The word ysgol, meaning ladder, comes from the Middle Welsh yscawl [\u02c8\u04d9sgaul] (ladder), from Latin sc\u0101la (ladder, stairs), from scand\u014d (I climb, ascend, mount), from the the Proto-Indo-European *skend- (to jump). Related words include: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,118,10,15,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-greek","category-language","category-latin","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– ysgol raff = rope ladder
\n– ysgol ffenestr = window ladder
\n– ysgol bysgod = fish-ladder<\/p>\n
\n– ysgol feithrin = infant school
\n– ysgol gynradd\/elfennol\/fach = primary\/elementary school
\n– ysgol uwchradd = secondary school
\n– ysgol gyfun = comprehensive school
\n– ysgol breswyl = boarding school
\n– ysgol hwyrol = night school
\n– ysgol Sul = Sunday school
\n– ysgol farddol = bardic school
\n– ysgol brofiad\/profiad = school of life
\n– prifysgol = university, college, academy, seminary<\/p>\n