Island

the Island

1. (in New York City) Long Island (in New York State)
   • 1972, Lou Reed (lyrics and music), “Walk on the Wild Side”, in Transformer:

     Candy came from out on the Island / In the backroom, she was everybody's darling

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

     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, Beau Simpson, "One 'Grape escape' on Vancouver Island", Surrey Now, 12 October 2010:

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

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

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

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

• Ladins, Landis, ilands

Island

1. Iceland (a country in Europe)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪslant]

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Island m inan

1. Iceland (a country in Europe)
2. Iceland (island)

• islandský
• islandština
• Islanďan
• Islanďanka

• Island in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• Island in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Island

1. Iceland (a country in Europe)

• IPA^(key): /ˈislɑnd̥/

Island

1. Iceland (a country in Europe)
2. Iceland (island)

• Eisland (obsolete)

From Old Norse Ísland, probably through Danish and/or Middle Low German.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːslant/

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Island n (proper noun, genitive Islands or (optionally with an article) Island)

1. Iceland (an island and country in Western Europe)

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

Island

1. Iceland (a country 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 (a country 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

Island

1. Iceland (a country 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)

• island
• islending
• islandsk, islendsk

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

Ìsland m (Cyrillic spelling Ѝсланд)

1. Iceland (a country in Europe)

• IPA^(key): [ˈislant]

Island m (genitive singular Islandu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Iceland (a country in Europe)

• Islanďan
• islandčina
• islandský

• Island in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

From Old Norse Ísland.

Island n (genitive Islands)

1. Iceland (a country in Europe)

• Lindas, i-lands, lindas, slidan