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)

1. Archaic 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; republished as Geoffrey Keynes, edited by John Sparrow, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: […], Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923, →OCLC, page 98, lines 2–3:

     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.

Usage notes

May be used by advocates of English spelling reform.

References

• “iland”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Dilan, Ladin, Landi, Linda, Ndali, nidal