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Island

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See also: Island', Ísland, Īsland, and island

English

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Etymology 1

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Proper noun

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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. (New Jersey) Long Beach Island.
  3. (British Columbia) Vancouver Island.
  4. (Canada, colloquial) Synonym of Prince Edward Island.
  5. (Internet slang, euphemistic) Epstein Island.
  6. (UK, colloquial) HM Prison Parkhurst, a prison on the Isle of Wight.

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Etymology 2

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Proper noun

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Island

  1. Obsolete form of Iceland.
    • 1624, John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles:
      […] Island, Groonland, Estotiland […]

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Breton

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Breton Wikipedia has an article on:
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Proper noun

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Island

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

Czech

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-so-der.
Proto-Germanic *īsą
Proto-Germanic *īsaz
Old Norse íss
Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Germanic *landą
Old Norse land
Old Norse Ísland
Icelandic Íslandbor.
Czech Island

    Borrowed from Icelandic Ísland.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): [ˈɪslant]
    • Audio:(file)
    • Hyphenation: is‧land

    Proper noun

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

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

    Declension

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    Declension of Island (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)
    singular
    nominative Island
    genitive Islandu
    dative Islandu
    accusative Island
    vocative Islande
    locative Islandu
    instrumental Islandem

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    countries in Europe: státy Evropy (appendix)edit

    Further reading

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    Danish

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    Danish Wikipedia has an article on:
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    Etymology

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    From Old Norse Ísland.

    Proper noun

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    Island

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

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    countries in Europe: Europas lande (appendix)edit

    Estonian

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    Etymology

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    From Old Norse Ísland.

    Pronunciation

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

    Proper noun

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    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

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    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 —

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    countries in Europe: Euroopa riigid (appendix)edit

    References

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    • 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

    German

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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    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.

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    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)

    Declension

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    Declension of Island [sg-only, neuter, strong]
    singular
    indef. def. noun
    nominative ein das Island
    genitive eines des Islands
    dative einem dem Island
    accusative ein das Island

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    countries in Europe: Staaten Europas (appendix)edit

    Greenlandic

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    Proper noun

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    Island

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

    Livonian

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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    From Latvian Islande.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈislɑnd/, [ˈisˑlɑnd̥]

    Proper noun

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    Island

    1. Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)
      • 2012–2013, “Island”, in Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits, editors, Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎[1], Tartu, Riga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra:
        Island – Island – Islande
        Iceland – Iceland – Iceland

    Usage notes

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    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.

    Declension

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    Declension of Island (135)
    singular (ikšlu’g) plural (pǟgiņlu’g)
    nominative (nominatīv) Island —
    genitive (genitīv) Island —
    partitive (partitīv) Islandõ —
    dative (datīv) Islandõn —
    instrumental (instrumentāl) Islandõks —
    illative (illatīv) Islandõ —
    inessive (inesīv) Islandõs —
    elative (elatīv) Islandõst —

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    • Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “Island”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎[2] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

    Middle English

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    Proper noun

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    Island

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

    Norwegian Bokmål

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    The location of Iceland in Europe.
    The coat of arms of Iceland.

    Etymology

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    Inherited from Old Norse Ísland, from íss (“ice”) +‎ land (“land, country”), literally “ice land”. The name probably refers to drift ice seen by early seafarers off the northern parts of the island.

    Compare Norwegian Nynorsk Island, Danish Island, Swedish Island, Faroese Ísland and Icelandic Ísland (“Iceland”). English Iceland is a calque of the Old Norse name.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /¹ˈiːs.lan/, [ˈìːs.lǎn]
    • Rhymes: -iːslan
    • Hyphenation: Is‧land

    Proper noun

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    Island

    1. Iceland; an island of Europe, in the northern Atlantic Ocean, south of the Arctic Circle.
      Øya Island ligger i Nord-Atlanteren. ― The island of Iceland lies in the North Atlantic Ocean.
      • 2026 January 6, Fredrik Lyngås Pedersen, “Island”, in Lille norske leksikon‎[3]:
        Island er Europas nest største øy etter Storbritannia.
        Iceland is Europe’s second-largest island after Great Britain.
    2. Iceland; a country in Europe, occupying the island of the same name, with Reykjavík as its capital.
      Reykjavík er hovedstaden på Island. ― Reykjavík is the capital of Iceland.
      • 2021 September 16, “Island”, in FN-sambandet‎[4]:
        Island er en øyrepublikk i Nord-Europa.
        Iceland is an island republic in Northern Europe.

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    • Island denotes both the island and the sovereign state.
    • In both senses, på Island is strongly recommended over i Island. The use of på has an unbroken Norwegian tradition rooted in common Old Norse usage.
    • Both the Norwegian short name and the official Norwegian name of the state are simply Island.

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    countries in Europe: Europas land (appendix)edit

    References

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    • “Island”, in Store norske leksikon‎[5], 25 June 2026, retrieved 2 August 2026
    • Fredrik Lyngås Pedersen (6 January 2026), “Island”, in Lille norske leksikon‎[6], retrieved 2 August 2026
    • “På Island”, in Språkrådet‎[7], 27 March 2025, retrieved 2 August 2026
    • “Land Norge har diplomatiske forbindelser med”, in Regjeringen.no‎[8], 2 August 2026 (last accessed)

    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    Etymology

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

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    Island n

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

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    Serbo-Croatian

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    Wikipedia has articles on:

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ǐsland/
    • Hyphenation: I‧sland

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    Ìsland m inan (Cyrillic spelling Ѝсланд, relational adjective ìslandskī, demonym Islánđanin, female demonym Islánđānka)

    1. Iceland (an island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe)
      Island se nalazi u neodgovarajućoj vremenskoj zoni. ― Iceland is located in an inappropriate time zone.

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    Declension of Island
    singular
    nominative Island
    genitive Islanda
    dative Islandu
    accusative Island
    vocative Islande
    locative Islandu
    instrumental Islandom

    Slovak

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    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /islant/, [ˈislant]
    • Rhymes: -islant
    • Hyphenation: Is‧land

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    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)

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    Declension of Island
    singulare tantum
    nominative Island
    genitive Islandu
    dative Islandu
    accusative Island
    locative Islande
    instrumental Islandom

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    countries in Europe: štáty Európy (appendix)edit

    Further reading

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    • “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, 2003–2026

    Swedish

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    Etymology

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    From Old Norse Ísland.

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    Island n (genitive Islands)

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

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