iland

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See also: i land and i-land

English

Etymology

From Middle English iland, yland, from Old English īġland, īeġland (“island”). Cognate with Scots iland, yland (“island”). More at island.

Noun

iland (plural ilands)

Obsolete spelling of island.
- 1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: , London: A M for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, pages 415–416:
  No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]
- 1790, Tobias George Smollett, The Critical review, or, Annals of literature:
  This vast iland seems to have been first peopled by Fins and Laplanders, whom Ihre thinks the first inhabitants of the whole.
- 1858, Thomas Wright, La mort d'Arthure:
  […] and there came against him king Marsill, that had in gift an iland of sir Galahalt the haute prince, and this iland had the name Pomitaine.
Misspelling of island.

Further reading

“iland”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

Dilan, Ladin, Landi, Linda, Ndali, nidal

Swedish

Adverb

iland (not comparable)

Alternative form of i land

References

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