isle
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English ile, yle (with s added, similar to English island), borrowed from Old French ille, idle, isle, from Latin insula. Not related to island. Doublet of insula.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
isle (plural isles)
Derived terms[edit]
- Balearic Isles
- Black Isle
- British Isles
- Fair Isle
- Grand Isle
- Isle of Arran
- Isle of Britain
- Isle of Dogs
- Isle of Ely
- Isle of Grain
- Isle of Lewis
- Isle of Man
- Isle of Mull, see Mull
- Isle of Portland
- Isle of Purbeck
- Isle of Sheppey
- Isle of Skye, see Skye
- Isle of Thanet
- Isle of Wight
- Scilly Isles, Isles of Scilly
- Small Isles
- tree isle
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
isle — see island
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
isle (plural isles)
Further reading[edit]
- “isle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Noun[edit]
isle f (plural isles)
Anagrams[edit]
Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French isle, from Latin insula.
Noun[edit]
isle f (plural isles)
Descendants[edit]
- French: île (see there for further descendants)
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin *isula, from Latin insula.
Noun[edit]
isle oblique singular, f (oblique plural isles, nominative singular isle, nominative plural isles)
Descendants[edit]
- Middle French: isle
- French: île (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: île
- Walloon: iye
- → Middle English: yle, ile
- English: isle
Turkish[edit]
Verb[edit]
isle
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