Easter Island

Easter Island

English

Etymology

Calque of Dutch Paaseiland. Named by the island's first recorded European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who encountered it on Easter Sunday 1722. Roggeveen named it Paasch-Eyland (an 18th century Dutch spelling). The island's official Spanish name, isla de Pascua, also means “Easter Island”.

Proper noun

Easter Island

1. An island in the South Pacific, belonging to Chile and famous for its moai monuments.

   Synonym: Rapa Nui

   Hyponym: Polynesia

   • 1755, A New Universal Collection of Voyages and Travels, page 320.

     The commodore, after he had quitted this iſland, ſailed 12 degrees to the weſtward, having ſight of a number of birds, which attended them till they arrived at a ſmall iſland about 16 leagues in extent, which they called Paſch, or Eaſter Iſland, from the day on which it was diſcovered.

Translations

Island in the Pacific

Acehnese: Pulo Easter Afrikaans: Paaseiland Arabic: جَزِيرَة عِيد اَلْفِصْح‎ f (jazīra(t) ʿīd al-fiṣḥ), جَزِيرَة الْفِصْح‎ (jazīra(t) al-fiṣḥ) Aragonese: Isla de Pascua Armenian: Զատկի կղզի (hy) (Zatki kłzi) Asturian: Islla de Pascua Azerbaijani: Pasxa adası Basque: Pazko uhartea Bavarian: Ostainsl Belarusian: во́страў Па́схі m (vóstraŭ Pásxi) Breton: Enez Pask Bulgarian: Великде́нски о́стров m (Velikdénski óstrov) Catalan: illa de Pasqua f Cebuano: pulo sa Tśile Chinese: Cantonese: 復活節島, 复活节岛 (fuk6 wut6 zit3 dou2) Mandarin: 復活節島／复活节岛 (zh) (Fùhuójiédǎo) Min Nan: 閣活節島, 阁活节岛 (Koh-oa̍h-choeh-tó, Koh-oa̍h-cheh-tó) Cornish: Ynys Pask Czech: Velikonoční ostrov m Danish: Påskeøen Dutch: Paaseiland (nl) n Esperanto: Paskinsulo (eo) Estonian: Lihavõttesaar (et) Faroese: Páskaoy Finnish: Pääsiäissaari (fi) Franco-Provençal: Ila de Pâques f French: île de Pâques (fr) f Gagauz: Paskellä Adası Galician: Illa de Pascua (gl) f German: Osterinsel (de) f Alemannic German: Osterinsel Greek: Νησί του Πάσχα n (Nisí tou Páscha) Hebrew: אי הפסחא‎ m (i ha-pasħa) Hungarian: Húsvét-sziget (hu) Icelandic: Páskaeyja Ido: Pasko-Insulo Indonesian: Pulau Paskah Irish: Oileán na Cásca Italian: Isola di Pasqua f Japanese: イースター島 (Īsutā-tō) Korean: 이스터 섬 (Iseuteo seom) Latin: insula Paschae f Latvian: Lieldienu sala Limburgish: Paoseiland Lithuanian: Velykų sala f Macedonian: Велигденски Остров m (Veligdenski Ostrov) Malagasy: Nosin'i Paska Malay: Pulau Easter Maltese: (please verify) il-Gżira ta' l-Għid , (please verify) il-Gżira Easter Manx: Ellan y Chaisht, Ellan ny Caisht Maori: Moutere Aranga North Frisian: Poosche-ailönj Norwegian: Bokmål: Påskeøya Nynorsk: Påskeøya Occitan: Illa de Pascas, Illa de Paschas Persian: جزیره ایستر‎ (jazire ister) Pitcairn-Norfolk: Iista Ailen Polish: Wyspa Wielkanocna (pl) f Portuguese: Ilha da Páscoa f, Ilha de Páscoa (pt) f Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui Romanian: Insula Paștelui Russian: о́стров Па́схи m (óstrov Pásxi) Rwanda-Rundi: Rapanuyi Sardinian: ìsula de Pasca Scots: Easter Island Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Ускршње острво n, Ускршњи оток m Roman: Uskršnje ostrvo n, Uskršnji otok m, Uskršnji otoci Sicilian: ìsula di Pasqua f Silesian: Wjelganocno Wyspa Slovak: Veľkonočný ostrov m Slovene: Velikonočni otok (sl) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: Jatšowna kupa Upper Sorbian: Jutrowna kupa Spanish: Isla de Pascua (es) f Sundanese: Pulo Paskah Swahili: Kisiwa cha Pasaka Swedish: Påskön (sv) Tahitian: Rapa Nui Tok Pisin: Ista Ailan Turkish: Paskalya Adası (tr) Ukrainian: о́стрів Па́схи m (óstriv Pásxy) Venetian: Ìxoła de Pàscua Vietnamese: Đảo Phục Sinh Walloon: Iye di Påke Waray-Waray: Lalawigan Welsh: Ynys y Pasg West Frisian: Peaske-eilân Yoruba: Erékùṣù Àjínde

Further reading

• Easter Island on Wikipedia.Wikipedia