iland
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 form of island.
- 1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: Printed by A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, OCLC 55189476, lines 2–3; republished as Geoffrey Keynes, John Sparrow, editor, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: […], Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923, OCLC 459265555, page 98:
- No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every 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.
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References
- iland in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Dilan, Ladin, Landi, Linda, Ndali, nidal