Island

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. (British Columbia) Vancouver Island
   • 2008 December 8, “Grizzlies at home on the Island”, in Times Colonist:

     A grizzly was photographed at Rugged Point near Kyuquot on the northwest coast of the Island in May, close to the time bears emerge from their dens, suggesting it had successfully hibernated on the Island.

   • 2010 October 12, Beau Simpson, “One 'Grape escape' on Vancouver Island”, in Surrey Now:

     And so, my lovely girlfriend Kari and I headed to the Island for a weekend of wines and dines.

   • 2011 July 7, Renee Andor, “His body hurts, but Vancouver Island circumnavigation record belongs to Angus”, in Comox Valley Record:

     Angus felt "fantastic" to have made it around the Island and beaten the record.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Island.
3. (Internet slang) Epstein Island
4. (UK, colloquial) HM Prison Parkhurst, a prison on the Isle of Wight

• Ladins, Lindas, ilands, Landis

Island

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

Borrowed from Icelandic Ísland.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪslant]

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• Hyphenation: is‧land

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

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

• “Island”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “Island”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Island”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Island

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

From Old Norse Ísland.

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

Island (genitive Islandi, partitive Islandi)

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

   Islandile ― to Iceland

   Islandil ― in Iceland

   Islandilt ― from Iceland

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	—

• 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

• Eisland (obsolete)

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːslant/

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• Rhymes: -ant

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)

• isländisch, Isländisch
• Isländer, Isländerin
• Islandpferd, Islandpony

Island

1. Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)
   • 1980, "Pissusissamisoorpoq Island nunarpullu suleqatigiissappata" ("It is proper that Iceland and Greenland [lit: our country] are going to work together") , Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten

• Īsland

• IPA^(key): /islɑnd/

Island

1. Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)
   • Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA

     Island – Island – Islande

     Iceland – Iceland – Iceland

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.

Island

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

Island

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

• islandshest

• islending
• islandsk

From Old Norse Ísland, from íss (“ice”) +‎ land (“land”). Akin to English Iceland.

• IPA^(key): /¹iːs.lan(d)/
• Rhymes: -and, -an

Island n

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

• island
• islending
• islandsk, islendsk

• IPA^(key): /ǐsland/
• Hyphenation: Is‧land

Ìsland m inan (Cyrillic spelling Ѝсланд)

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈislant]

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)

• islandčina

• “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, 2003–2025

From Old Norse Ísland.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːsland/

Island n (genitive Islands)

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

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

• Lindas, i-lands, lindas, slidan