Island

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See also: Island', Ísland, Īsland, and island

English

Proper noun

the Island

  1. (New York City) Long Island (in New York State)
    • 1972, Lou Reed (lyrics and music), “Walk on the Wild Side”, in Transformer:
      Candy came from out on the Island / In the backroom, she was everybody's darling
  2. (British Columbia) Vancouver Island
  3. (Internet slang) Epstein Island
  4. (UK, colloquial) HM Prison Parkhurst, a prison on the Isle of Wight

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Breton

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Proper noun

Island

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Czech

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Etymology

Borrowed from Icelandic Ísland.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: is‧land

Proper noun

Island m inan (relational adjective islandský, demonym Islanďan, female demonym Islanďanka)

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

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(countries of Europe) státy Evropy; Albánie, Andorra, Arménie, Ázerbájdžán, Belgie, Bělorusko, Bosna a Hercegovina, Bulharsko, Černá Hora, Česko, Dánsko, Estonsko, Finsko, Francie, Gruzie, Chorvatsko, Irsko, Island, Itálie, Kazachstán, Kypr, Lichtenštejnsko, Litva, Lotyšsko, Lucembursko, Maďarsko, Malta, Moldavsko, Monako, Německo, Nizozemsko, Norsko, Polsko, Portugalsko, Rakousko, Rumunsko, Rusko, Řecko, San Marino, Severní Makedonie, Slovensko, Slovinsko, Spojené království, Srbsko, Španělsko, Švédsko, Švýcarsko, Turecko, Ukrajina, Vatikán, (Category: cs:Countries in Europe)

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)

Danish

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Proper noun

Island

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

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Estonian

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Etymology

From Old Norse Ísland.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Island (genitive Islandi, partitive Islandi)

  1. Iceland (a country in the North Atlantic Ocean, Europe)
    Islandileto Iceland
    Islandilin Iceland
    Islandiltfrom Iceland

Declension

Declension of Island (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative Island
accusative nom.
gen. Islandi
genitive
partitive Islandi
illative Islandi
Islandisse
inessive Islandis
elative Islandist
allative Islandile
adessive Islandil
ablative Islandilt
translative Islandiks
terminative Islandini
essive Islandina
abessive Islandita
comitative Islandiga

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References

  • Island in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • Island”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

German

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Alternative forms

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

Proper noun

Island n (proper noun, genitive Islands or (optionally with an article) Island)

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

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Greenlandic

Proper noun

Island

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Livonian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Island

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

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.

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Middle English

Proper noun

Island

  1. Alternative form of Iseland

Norwegian Bokmål

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Riksvåpen

Proper noun

Island

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

From Old Norse Ísland, from íss (ice) +‎ land (land). Akin to English Iceland.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Island n

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǐsland/
  • Hyphenation: Is‧land

Proper noun

Ìsland m (Cyrillic spelling Ѝсланд)

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Declension

Slovak

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Island m inan (genitive singular Islandu, declension pattern of dub, relational adjective islandský or islandsky, demonym Islanďan, female demonym Islanďanka)

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

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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, 2003–2024

Swedish

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Etymology

From Old Norse Ísland.

Proper noun

Island n (genitive Islands)

  1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

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