Island

Island

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

English

Proper noun

the Island

1. (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

2. (in British Columbia) Vancouver Island
   • 2008, "Grizzlies at home on the Island", Times Colonist, 8 December 2008:

     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.

   • 2010, Beau Simpson, "One 'Grape escape' on Vancouver Island", Surrey Now, 12 October 2010:

     And so, my lovely girlfriend Kari and I headed to the Island for a weekend of wines and dines.

   • 2011, Renee Andor, "His body hurts, but Vancouver Island circumnavigation record belongs to Angus", Comox Valley Record, 7 July 2011:

     Angus felt "fantastic" to have made it around the Island and beaten the record.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Island.
3. (UK, colloquial) HM Prison Parkhurst, a prison on the Isle of Wight.

Anagrams

• Ladins, Landis, ilands

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Breton

Proper noun

Island

1. Iceland (a country in Europe)

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪslant]

• Audio

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Proper noun

Island m inan

1. Iceland (a country in Europe)
2. Iceland (island)

Related terms

• islandský
• islandština
• Islanďan
• Islanďanka

Further reading

• Island in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• Island in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Danish

Proper noun

Island

1. Iceland (a country in Europe)

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Estonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈislɑnd̥/

Proper noun

Island

1. Iceland (a country in Europe)
2. Iceland (island)

Declension

Declension of Island (type riik)

	singular	plural
nominative	Island	Isilid
genitive	Isili	Islandide
partitive	Islandi	Islande / Islandisid
illative	Islandi / Isilisse	Islandidesse / Isilesse
inessive	Isilis	Islandides / Isiles
elative	Isilist	Islandidest / Isilest
allative	Isilile	Islandidele / Isilele
adessive	Isilil	Islandidel / Isilel
ablative	Isililt	Islandidelt / Isilelt
translative	Isiliks	Islandideks / Isileks
terminative	Isilini	Islandideni
essive	Isilina	Islandidena
abessive	Isilita	Islandideta
comitative	Isiliga	Islandidega

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German

Alternative forms

• Eisland (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Norse Ísland, probably through Danish and/or Middle Low German.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːslant/

• Audio

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Proper noun

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

1. Iceland (an island and country in Western Europe)

Declension

Declension of Island [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Island
genitive	eines	des	Islands
dative	einem	dem	Island
accusative	ein	das	Island

Derived terms

• isländisch, Isländisch
• Isländer, Isländerin
• Islandpferd, Islandpony

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Greenlandic

Proper noun

Island

1. Iceland (a country in Europe)
   • 1980, "Pissusissamisoorpoq Island nunarpullu suleqatigiissappata" ("It is proper that Iceland and Greenland [lit: our country] are going to work together") , Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten

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Livonian

Alternative forms

• Īsland

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /islɑnd/

Proper noun

Island

1. Iceland (a country in Europe)
   • Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA

     Island – Island – Islande

     Iceland – Iceland – Iceland

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)

	singular (ikšlug)	plural (pǟgiņlug)
nominative (nominatīv)	Island	–
genitive (genitīv)	Island	–
partitive (partitīv)	Islandõ	–
dative (datīv)	Islandõn	–
instrumental (instrumentāl)	Islandõks	–
illative (illatīv)	Islandõ	–
inessive (inesīv)	Islandõs Islands	–
elative (elatīv)	Islandõst Islandst	–

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Middle English

Proper noun

Island

1. Alternative form of Iseland

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Norwegian Bokmål

Riksvåpen

Proper noun

Island

1. Iceland (a country in Europe)

Derived terms

• islandshest

Related terms

• islending
• islandsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹iːs.lan(d)/
• Rhymes: -and, -an

Proper noun

Island n

1. Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean)

Derived terms

• islandsand
• islandsfar
• islandsfarar
• islandsfiske
• islandshest
• islandslav
• islandsmose
• islandsmåse
• islandssild
• islandssnipe
• islandstrøye
• islandsull

Related terms

• island
• islending
• islandsk, islendsk

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Ìsland m (Cyrillic spelling Ѝсланд)

1. Iceland (a country in Europe)

Declension

Declension of Island

	singular
nominative	Island
genitive	Islanda
dative	Islandu
accusative	Island
vocative	Islande
locative	Islandu
instrumental	Islandom

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈislant]

Proper noun

Island m (genitive singular Islandu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Iceland (a country in Europe)

Declension

Declension of Island

	singulare tantum
nominative	Island
genitive	Islandu
dative	Islandu
accusative	Island
locative	Islande
instrumental	Islandom

Derived terms

• Islanďan
• islandčina
• islandský

Further reading

• Island in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse Ísland.

Proper noun

Island n (genitive Islands)

1. Iceland (a country in Europe)

Derived terms

• islandshäst
• isländare
• isländsk
• isländska
• islänning

Anagrams

• Lindas, i-lands, lindas, slidan