Etymograph

English

schoolsick

From school + sick.

A compound of school + sick

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 *sewg- ‘to be troubled or grieved’

Proto-Germanic *seukaz

Proto-West Germanic *seuk

Old English sēoc ‘sick’

Middle English sik ‘sick’

English sick

The story

Modeled after homesick.

Today it means

adj Missing one's school and friends very much when away.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / schoolsick