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school

Greek skholḗ meant 'leisure', then what free people did with their leisure: talk, argue and learn. Latin made it the place of learning, and monks and missionaries carried schola to every corner of Christian Europe, from Ireland and Iceland to Poland and Russia, and Yiddish turned it into the word for a synagogue.

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The road to English

From Ancient Greek to Modern Greek

From Latin to Old High German, Middle High German, German

From Middle High German to Yiddish, American English

From Latin to Old French, French

From Latin to Italian, Albanian

From Latin to Spanish

From Latin to Portuguese

From Latin to Old Irish, Irish

From Latin to Welsh

From Old English to Old Norse, Swedish, Finnish

From Latin to Czech, Polish, Russian

From Latin to Hungarian

450 BCEAncient Greek

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