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Island

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

English

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the Island

  1. (New York City) Long Island (in New York State).
    • 1972, Lou Reed, “Walk on the Wild Side”, in Transformer:
      Candy came from out on the Island / In the backroom, she was everybody's darling
  2. (New Jersey) Long Beach Island.
  3. (British Columbia) Vancouver Island.
  4. (Canada, colloquial) Synonym of Prince Edward Island.
  5. (Internet slang) Epstein Island.
  6. (UK, colloquial) HM Prison Parkhurst, a prison on the Isle of Wight.

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Etymology 2

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Island

  1. Obsolete form of Iceland.
    • 1624, John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles:
      [] Island, Groonland, Estotiland []

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Breton

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Breton Wikipedia has an article on:
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Island

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

Czech

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Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Icelandic Ísland.

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    • IPA(key): [ˈɪslant]
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    • Hyphenation: is‧land

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

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

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    Danish

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    Danish Wikipedia has an article on:
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    Etymology

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    From Old Norse Ísland.

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    Island

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

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    Estonian

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    Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:
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    Etymology

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    From Old Norse Ísland.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈislɑnd̥/, [ˈislɑnd̥]
    • Rhymes: -islɑnd
    • Hyphenation: Is‧land

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    Island (genitive Islandi, partitive Islandi)

    1. Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)
      Islandileto Iceland
      Islandilin Iceland
      Islandiltfrom Iceland

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    Declension of Island (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
    singular plural
    nominative Island
    accusative nom.
    gen. Islandi
    genitive
    partitive Islandi
    illative Islandi
    Islandisse
    inessive Islandis
    elative Islandist
    allative Islandile
    adessive Islandil
    ablative Islandilt
    translative Islandiks
    terminative Islandini
    essive Islandina
    abessive Islandita
    comitative Islandiga

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    References

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    • Island in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
    • Island”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

    German

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    Etymology

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    From Middle Low German Îslant, a calque of Old Norse Ísland (Iceland), from íss (ice) +‎ land (land). The High-Germanized form Eisland did not establish itself; that with I- was reinforced by Danish Island. Compare the same in Grönland.

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

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

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    Greenlandic

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    Island

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

    Livonian

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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    From Latvian Islande.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈislɑnd/, [ˈisˑlɑnd̥]

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    Island

    1. Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)
      • 2012–2013, “Island”, in Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits, editors, Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎[1], Tartu, Riga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra:
        Island – Island – Islande
        Iceland – Iceland – Iceland

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    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.

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    Declension of Island (135)
    singular (ikšlu’g) plural (pǟgiņlu’g)
    nominative (nominatīv) Island
    genitive (genitīv) Island
    partitive (partitīv) Islandõ
    dative (datīv) Islandõn
    instrumental (instrumentāl) Islandõks
    illative (illatīv) Islandõ
    inessive (inesīv) Islandõs
    elative (elatīv) Islandõst

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    • Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “Island”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎[2] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

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    Island

    1. alternative form of Iseland: Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)

    Norwegian Bokmål

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    Riksvåpen

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    Island

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

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    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
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    From Old Norse Ísland, from íss (ice) +‎ land (land). Akin to English Iceland.

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    Island n

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

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    Serbo-Croatian

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    Wikipedia has articles on:

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    • IPA(key): /ǐsland/
    • Hyphenation: I‧sland

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    Ìsland m inan (Cyrillic spelling Ѝсланд, relational adjective ìslandskī, demonym Islánđanin, female demonym Islánđānka)

    1. Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)
      Island se nalazi u neodgovarajućoj vremenskoj zoni.Iceland is located in an inappropriate time zone.

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    Slovak

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    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /islant/, [ˈislant]
    • Rhymes: -islant
    • Hyphenation: Is‧land

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    Island m inan (genitive singular Islandu, declension pattern of dub, relational adjective islandský or islandsky, demonym Islanďan, female demonym Islanďanka)

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

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

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    Further reading

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    • 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, 2003–2026

    Swedish

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    Etymology

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    From Old Norse Ísland.

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    Island n (genitive Islands)

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

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