different between iland vs aland

English

Etymology

From Middle English iland, yland, from Old English ??land, ?e?land (“island”). Cognate with Scots iland, yland (“island”). More at island.

Noun

iland (plural ilands)

1. Archaic form of island.
   • 1790, Tobias George Smollett, The Critical review, or, Annals of literature:

     This vast iland seems to have been first peopled by Fins and Laplanders, whom Ihre thinks the first inhabitants of the whole.

   • 1858, Thomas Wright, La mort d'Arthure:

     […] and there came against him king Marsill, that had in gift an iland of sir Galahalt the haute prince, and this iland had the name Pomitaine.

Usage notes

May be used by advocates of English spelling reform.

References

• iland in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Dilan, Ladin, Landi, Linda, Ndali, nidal

English

Etymology

From Middle English aland, alond, alonde, o lande, from Old English on lande (“on land”), equivalent to a- +? land.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??land/
• Rhymes: -ænd

Adverb

aland (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) On dry land, as opposed to in the water. [13th-19th c.]
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Pericles, V:

     I maruell how the Fishes liue in the Sea […] Why, as Men doe a-land.

2. (now rare, poetic) To the land; ashore. [from 14th c.]
   • c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, London 1846:

     Henry the Eighth […] departed out of England from Sowthampton, with a great navy of shipps to set that company aland in Spayne, for to helpe the kynge of Spayne agaynste the Frenche kynge […]

References

• aland in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Landa, N.D. Ala., Ndala

Northern Kurdish

Verb

aland

1. first/second/third-person singular/plural preterite of alandin

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• ?lond
• eiland / eilond
• ?land / ?lond

Noun

?land n

1. island

Inflection