Insel

• Insul (obsolete)

From Middle High German insel, insele, isele, from Old High German isila, *insila, from Proto-West Germanic *isulā, *insulā, borrowed from Latin *isula, insula (“island”).

Native Middle High German words for “island” were ouwe and wert; cf. modern Aue (“meadow by a river”) and Werder (“river island”). Other borrowings were eilant, einlant (from Old Frisian; see Eiland) and the rare īle (from Old French, ultimately from the same Latin word as above).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnzəl/, [ˈʔɪn.zl̩], [ˈʔɪn.zəl]

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Insel f (genitive Insel, plural Inseln, diminutive Inselchen n)

1. an island, an isle

   Synonym: (elevated) Eiland

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From Middle High German insel, from Latin īnsula (“island”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈinsəl/
• Rhymes: -insəl
• Syllabification: In‧sel

Insel f (plural Insle, diminutive Inselche)

1. island, isle

   Dääst-du gern in ener Insel wohne? ― Would you like to live on an island?

• Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Insel”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 82, column 2

Ultimately from Latin insula.

Insel f (plural Inseln)

1. island, isle

• Eiland
• Warder

• Der neue SASS: Plattdeutsches Wörterbuch, Plattdeutsch - Hochdeutsch, Hochdeutsch - Plattdeutsch. Plattdeutsche Rechtschreibung, sixth revised edition (2011, →ISBN, Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster)

• Ënsel

• IPA^(key): /ˈinzel/, [ˈinzəl]

Insel f (plural Inselen)

1. island

Ultimately from Latin insula.

Insel f (plural Inslen)

1. island