Island
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the Island
- (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
- (in 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.
- (UK, colloquial) HM Prison Parkhurst, a prison on the Isle of Wight.
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Island
- Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)
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Borrowed from Icelandic Ísland.
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Island m inan (related adjective islandský, demonym Islanďan, female demonym Islanďanka)
- Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)
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- islandka f
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(countries of Europe) státy Evropy; Albánie, Andorra, Arménie, Ázerbájdžán, Belgie, Bělorusko, Bosna a Hercegovina, Bulharsko, Černá Hora, Česko, Dánsko, Estonsko, Finsko, Francie, Gruzie, Chorvatsko, Irsko, Island, Itálie, Kazachstán, Kypr, Lichtenštejnsko, Litva, Lotyšsko, Lucembursko, Maďarsko, Malta, Moldavsko, Monako, Německo, Nizozemsko, Norsko, Polsko, Portugalsko, Rakousko, Rumunsko, Rusko, Řecko, San Marino, Severní Makedonie, Slovensko, Slovinsko, Spojené království, Srbsko, Španělsko, Švédsko, Švýcarsko, Turecko, Ukrajina, Vatikán, (Category: cs:Countries in Europe)
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Island
- Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)
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Island (genitive Islandi, partitive Islandi)
- Iceland (a country in the North Atlantic Ocean)
- Islandile ― to Iceland
- Islandil ― in Iceland
- Islandilt ― from Iceland
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Declension of Island (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation) | |||
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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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From Old Norse Ísland, probably through Danish and/or Middle Low German.
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Island n (proper noun, genitive Islands or (optionally with an article) Island)
- Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)
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- (countries of Europe) Staaten Europas; Albanien, Andorra, Armenien, Aserbaidschan, Belgien, Belarus, Bosnien und Herzegowina, Bulgarien, Deutschland, Dänemark, Estland, Finnland, Frankreich, Georgien, Griechenland, Irland, Island, Italien, Kasachstan, Kroatien, Lettland, Liechtenstein, Litauen, Luxemburg, Malta, Moldau, Monaco, Montenegro, Nordmazedonien, Norwegen, Niederlande, Österreich, Polen, Portugal, Rumänien, Russland, San Marino, Schweden, Schweiz, Serbien, Slowakei, Slowenien, Spanien, Tschechien, Türkei, Ukraine, Ungarn, Vereinigtes Königreich, Vatikanstadt, Zypern (Category: de:Countries in Europe)
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Island
- Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)
- 1980, "Pissusissamisoorpoq Island nunarpullu suleqatigiissappata" ("It is proper that Iceland and Greenland [lit: our country] are going to work together") , Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten
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Island
- Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)
- Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA
- Island – Island – Islande
- Iceland – Iceland – Iceland
- Island – Island – Islande
- Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA
Usage notes edit
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.
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Island
- Alternative form of Iseland
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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Island
- Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)
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Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse Ísland, from íss (“ice”) + land (“land”). Akin to English Iceland.
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Island n
- Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)
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Ìsland m (Cyrillic spelling Ѝсланд)
- Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)
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Island m inan (genitive singular Islandu, declension pattern of dub)
- Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)
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Further reading edit
- “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, 2024
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Island n (genitive Islands)
- Iceland (an island and country in Europe, North Atlantic Ocean; capital: Reykjavík)