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 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.

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

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

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

     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

Breton

Proper noun

Island

1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪslant]

• Audio

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Proper noun

Island m inan (related adjective islandský, demonym Islanďan, female demonym Islanďanka)

1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Declension

Declension of Island (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	Island
genitive	Islandu
dative	Islandu
accusative	Island
vocative	Islande
locative	Islandu
instrumental	Islandem

Related terms

• islandština

 

Further reading

• Island in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• Island in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• Island in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish

Proper noun

Island

1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Estonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈislɑnd̥/

Proper noun

Island

1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe; capital: Reykjavík)

Declension

Declension of Island (ÕS type 22e/riik, land-il gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	Island	Isilid
accusative	Isili	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
Notes	1) The long illative singular form with -sse is rarely used for this declension type.

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 Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

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

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

1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)
   • 1980, "Pissusissamisoorpoq Island nunarpullu suleqatigiissappata" ("It is proper that Iceland and Greenland [lit: our country] are going to work together") , Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten

Livonian

Alternative forms

• Īsland

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /islɑnd/

Proper noun

Island

1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)
   • 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	–

Middle English

Proper noun

Island

1. Alternative form of Iseland

Norwegian Bokmål

Riksvåpen

Proper noun

Island

1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Derived terms

• islandshest

Related terms

• islending
• islandsk

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 Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• island
• islending
• islandsk, islendsk

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Ìsland m (Cyrillic spelling Ѝсланд)

1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Declension

Declension of Island

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

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈislant]

Proper noun

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

1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

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 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, 2023

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse Ísland.

Proper noun

Island n (genitive Islands)

1. Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)

Derived terms

• islandshäst
• isländare
• isländsk
• isländska
• islänning

Anagrams

• Lindas, i-lands, lindas, slidan