Irland

Inherited from Old Norse Írland, from Írar m pl (“Irishmen”), see irer.

• IPA^(key): [ˈiɐ̯ˌlanˀ]

Irland

1. Ireland (an island and country in northwestern Europe)

   Irland er en ø og et land i Vesteuropa.

   Ireland is an island and a country in Western Europe.

• irer
• irlænder
• irsk
• Nordirland

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪrlant/, [ˈʔɪʁ.lant], [ˈʔɪɐ̯-]
• Note that, while Ire and irisch have a long vowel, Irland has a short one.

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• Rhymes: -ant

Irland n (proper noun, genitive Irlands or (optionally with an article) Irland, plural (rare) Irlande)

1. Ireland (an island and country in northwestern Europe)
   • 1856, Albert Werfer, Leben ausgezeichneter Katholiken der drei letzten Jahrhunderte. Vierzehntes Bändchen: Leben und Wirken des Daniel O'Connell, page 56:

     Und diese drei feindlichen Lager sollten nun auf einmal in Eins verschmolzen, beide Irlande sollten mit sich und mit England zu Einem unzertrennlichen Ganzen verbunden werden.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Irländer
• irländisch
• Nordirland
• Südirland

• Ire
• irisch
  • Irisch

Irland

1. alternative form of Irlond

Inherited from Old Norse Írland.

Irland

1. Ireland (an island and country in northwestern Europe; official name: Republikken Irland)

• ire
• irlender
• irlending
• irsk
• Nord-Irland

Inherited from Old Norse Írland.

Irland

1. Ireland (an island and country in northwestern Europe; official name: Republikken Irland)

• Hīrland

Derived from Īras (“the Irish”) and land (“land, country”). The first element could also be an unattested singular form *Īr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːrˌlɑnd/

Īrland n

1. Ireland (an island and country in northwestern Europe)

Strong a-stem:

• Īra land

• Middle English: Irlond, Irelond, Irland, Yrland, Yrloand
  • English: Ireland
    • → Japanese: アイルランド (Airurando)
    • → Tamil: அயர்லாந்து (ayarlāntu)
    • → Telugu: ఐర్లాండు (airlāṇḍu), ఐర్లాండ్ (airlāṇḍ)
  • Scots: Irland
  • Yola: Erelhoan, Irelonde
  • → Old French: Irlande, Yrlande
    • French: Irlande
      • Haitian Creole: Ilann
      • → Greek: Ιρλανδία (Irlandía)
      • → Persian: ایرلند (irland)
    • Norman: Irlande
    • Walloon: Irlande

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Īrland”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Inherited from Old Norse Írland.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪr.land/

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• Hyphenation: Ir‧land

Irland n (genitive Irlands)

1. Ireland (an island and country in northwestern Europe)

• Erin (“Erin”) (rare)

• irländare
• irländsk
• irländska

• → Finnish: Irlanti

• Irland in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

• lindra