An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Schule

by Friedrich Kluge

Schule, f., ‘school,’ from MidHG. schuole, f., ‘school, university,’ OHG. scuola, f., ‘school’; comp. Du. school, AS. scôl (scôlu), E. school (OIc. skôle, ‘school,’ is of E. origin). Borrowed at the same period as the ecclesiastical words from Lat. scôla, as pronounced in Rom. scôla (with regard to Lat. ŏ see prüfen); comp. Brief, Dom, and Priester. —