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English
Proper noun
the Island
( in 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
( in British Columbia ) Vancouver Island
2008 December 8, “Grizzlies at home on the Island ”, in Times Colonist :A grizzly was photographed at Rugged Point near Kyuquot on the northwest coast of the Island in May, close to the time bears emerge from their dens, suggesting it had successfully hibernated on the Island .
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Island .
( UK , colloquial ) HM Prison Parkhurst , a prison on the Isle of Wight .
Anagrams
Breton
Proper noun
Island
Iceland (an island and country in Europe , North Atlantic Ocean ; capital: Reykjavík )
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from Icelandic Ísland .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) :
Hyphenation: is‧land
Proper noun
Island m inan (related adjective islandský , demonym Islanďan , female demonym Islanďanka )
Iceland (an island and country in Europe , North Atlantic Ocean ; capital: Reykjavík )
Declension
Declension of Island (sg-only hard masculine inanimate )
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
(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 , 1935–1957
Island in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého , 1960–1971, 1989
Island in Internetová jazyková příručka
Danish
Proper noun
Island
Iceland (an island and country in Europe , North Atlantic Ocean ; capital: Reykjavík )
Estonian
Etymology
From Old Norse Ísland .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Island (genitive Islandi , partitive Islandi )
Iceland (a country in the North Atlantic Ocean )
Islandile ― to Iceland
Islandil ― in Iceland
Islandilt ― from Iceland
Declension
Derived terms
References
German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse Ísland , probably through Danish and/or Middle Low German .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Island n (proper noun , genitive Islands or ( optionally with an article ) Island )
Iceland (an island and country in Europe , North Atlantic Ocean ; capital: Reykjavík )
Declension
Derived terms
See also
(countries of Europe ) Staaten Europas ; Albanien , Andorra , Armenien , Aserbaidschan , Belgien , Belarus , Bosnien und Herzegowina , Bulgarien , Deutschland , Dänemark , Estland , Finnland , Frankreich , Georgien , Griechenland , Irland , Island , Italien , Kasachstan , Kroatien , Lettland , Liechtenstein , Litauen , Luxemburg , Malta , Moldau , Monaco , Montenegro , Nordmazedonien , Norwegen , Niederlande , Österreich , Polen , Portugal , Rumänien , Russland , San Marino , Schweden , Schweiz , Serbien , Slowakei , Slowenien , Spanien , Tschechien , Türkei , Ukraine , Ungarn , Vereinigtes Königreich , Vatikanstadt , Zypern (Category: de:Countries in Europe )
Greenlandic
Proper noun
Island
Iceland (an island and country in Europe , North Atlantic Ocean ; capital: Reykjavík )
Livonian
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Island
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.
Declension
Declension of
Island (
135 )
Middle English
Proper noun
Island
Alternative form of Iseland
Norwegian Bokmål
Riksvåpen
Proper noun
Island
Iceland (an island and country in Europe , North Atlantic Ocean ; capital: Reykjavík )
Derived terms
Related terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse Ísland , from íss ( “ ice ” ) + land ( “ land ” ) . Akin to English Iceland .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Island n
Iceland (an island and country in Europe , North Atlantic Ocean ; capital: Reykjavík )
Derived terms
Related terms
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ǐsland/
Hyphenation: Is‧land
Proper noun
Ìsland m (Cyrillic spelling Ѝсланд )
Iceland (an island and country in Europe , North Atlantic Ocean ; capital: Reykjavík )
Declension
Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Island m inan (genitive singular Islandu , declension pattern of dub )
Iceland (an island and country in Europe , North Atlantic Ocean ; capital: Reykjavík )
Declension
Derived terms
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 , 2024
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse Ísland .
Proper noun
Island n (genitive Islands )
Iceland (an island and country in Europe , North Atlantic Ocean ; capital: Reykjavík )
Derived terms
Anagrams