The Island
التعريفات والمعاني
== English ==
=== Proper noun ===
the Island
(New York City) Long Island (in New York State).
(New Jersey) Long Beach Island.
(British Columbia) Vancouver Island.
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Island.
(Canada, colloquial) Synonym of Prince Edward Island.
(Internet slang) Epstein Island.
(UK, colloquial) HM Prison Parkhurst, a prison on the Isle of Wight.
=== Anagrams ===
Ladins, Lindas, ilands, Landis
== Breton ==
=== Proper noun ===
Island
Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)
== Czech ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Icelandic Ísland.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [ˈɪslant]
Hyphenation: is‧land
=== Proper noun ===
Island m inan (relational adjective islandský, demonym Islanďan, female demonym Islanďanka)
Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
==== Related terms ====
=== See also ===
=== Further reading ===
“Island”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
“Island”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
“Island”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026
== Danish ==
=== Etymology ===
From Old Norse Ísland.
=== Proper noun ===
Island
Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)
==== Derived terms ====
=== See also ===
== Estonian ==
=== Etymology ===
From Old Norse Ísland.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈislɑnd̥/, [ˈislɑnd̥]
Rhymes: -islɑnd
Hyphenation: Is‧land
=== Proper noun ===
Island (genitive Islandi, partitive Islandi)
Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)
Islandile ― to Iceland
Islandil ― in Iceland
Islandilt ― from Iceland
==== Declension ====
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=== See also ===
=== References ===
Island in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
“Island”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
== German ==
=== Alternative forms ===
Eisland (obsolete)
=== Etymology ===
From Middle Low German Îslant, a calque of Old Norse Ísland (“Iceland”), from íss (“ice”) + land (“land”). The High-Germanized form Eisland did not establish itself; that with I- was reinforced by Danish Island. Compare the same in Grönland.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈiːslant/
Rhymes: -ant
=== Proper noun ===
Island n (proper noun, genitive Islands or (optionally with an article) Island)
Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
isländisch, Isländisch
Isländer, Isländerin
Islandpferd, Islandpony
=== See also ===
== Greenlandic ==
=== Proper noun ===
Island
Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)
1980, "Pissusissamisoorpoq Island nunarpullu suleqatigiissappata" ("It is proper that Iceland and Greenland [lit: our country] are going to work together") , Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten
== Livonian ==
=== Alternative forms ===
Īsland
=== Etymology ===
From Latvian Islande.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈislɑnd/, [ˈisˑlɑnd̪̥]
=== Proper noun ===
Island
Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)
==== Usage notes ====
Perhaps by error LĒL lists this term as type 127 – vȯņ which has consonant shift in genitive (vȯn) a pattern that is not possible for this term. Like for Kanād the most regular type (135 – āigast) is given in this entry.
==== Declension ====
=== References ===
Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “Island”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary][2] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra
== Middle English ==
=== Proper noun ===
Island
alternative form of Iseland: Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)
== Norwegian Bokmål ==
=== Proper noun ===
Island
Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)
==== Derived terms ====
islandshest
==== Related terms ====
islending
islandsk
== Norwegian Nynorsk ==
=== Etymology ===
From Old Norse Ísland, from íss (“ice”) + land (“land”). Akin to English Iceland.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /¹iːs.lan(d)/
Rhymes: -and, -an
=== Proper noun ===
Island n
Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)
==== Derived terms ====
==== Related terms ====
island
islending
islandsk, islendsk
== Serbo-Croatian ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ǐsland/
Hyphenation: Is‧land
=== Proper noun ===
Ìsland m inan (Cyrillic spelling Ѝсланд)
Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)
==== Declension ====
== Slovak ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [ˈislant]
=== Proper noun ===
Island m inan (genitive singular Islandu, declension pattern of dub, relational adjective islandský or islandsky, demonym Islanďan, female demonym Islanďanka)
Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
islandčina
=== See also ===
=== Further reading ===
“Island”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026
== Swedish ==
=== Etymology ===
From Old Norse Ísland.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈiːsland/
=== Proper noun ===
Island n (genitive Islands)
Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)
==== Derived terms ====
==== See also ====
=== References ===
Island in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Svensk MeSH
=== Anagrams ===
Lindas, i-lands, lindas, slidan