English
schoolteaching
From school + teaching.
A compound of school + teaching
Ancient Greek σχολή ‘spare time, leisure’
Late Latin schola ‘school, lecture’
Proto-West Germanic *skōlu ‘school’
Old English scōl ‘place of education’
Middle English scole ‘school’
English school
Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- ‘to show’
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Proto-West Germanic *taikijan
Old English tǣċan ‘to show’
Old English tǣċing ‘instruction’
Middle English teching
English teaching
Today it means
noun Serving as a teacher in a school.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “schoolteaching”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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