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island
English
Alternative forms
- iland (archaic)
- ylond, ylelond, yland (obsolete)
Etymology
From earlier iland, from Middle English iland, yland, ylond, from Old English ??land, ?e?land, ?aland (“island”), from Proto-Germanic *awj?land? (from Proto-Germanic *awj? (“island, waterland, meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ek?eh?) + *land? (“land”), equivalent to ey +? land.
Cognate with Scots island, iland, yland (“island”), West Frisian eilân (“island”), Saterland Frisian Ailound (“island”), Dutch eiland (“island”), Low German Eiland (“island”), German Eiland (“island”), Swedish ö (“island”), Danish ø (“island”), Norwegian øy (“island”), Icelandic eyland (“island”).
The insertion of ?s?—a 16th century spelling modification—is due to a change in spelling to the unrelated term isle, which previously lacked s (cf. Middle English ile, yle). The re-addition was mistakingly carried over to include iland as well. Related also to German Aue (“water-meadow”), Latin aqua (“water”). More at ea.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?a??l?nd/
Noun
island (plural islands)
- A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
- An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.
- (a calm place surrounded by a noisy environment)
- 1939, Deseret News, October 27 1939, Roosevelt Reaffirms American Neutrality
- King Leopold, speaking in fluent English during his six minute broadcast, said Belgium stood side by side with Holland "an Island of peace in the interests of all"
- A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
- A traffic island.
- (government) An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
- (grammar) A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.
Synonyms
- (land surrounded by water): ait, holm
- (an entity surrounded by other very different entities): oasis
Derived terms
Related terms
- insular
- isle
- islet
- archipelago
Translations
Verb
island (third-person singular simple present islands, present participle islanding, simple past and past participle islanded)
- (transitive) To surround with water; make into an island.
- 1933, Harriet Monroe, Poetry: Volume 42
- We paused at little river cities along the way and walked upon their bushy dikes, and heard tales of overflows in flood seasons, when four feet or more of water islanded the houses.
- 1933, Harriet Monroe, Poetry: Volume 42
- (transitive) To set, dot (as if) with islands.
- (transitive) To isolate.
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXVII, lines 1-2
- High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam
- Islanded in Severn stream.
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXVII, lines 1-2
Synonyms
- isle
Translations
See also
- archipelago
- atoll
- cay, key
- continent
- peninsula
Anagrams
- Ladins, Landis, ilands
Scots
Alternative forms
- iland
- yland
Etymology
From Old English ??land.
Pronunciation
Noun
island (plural islands)
- An island.
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kay
English
Alternative forms
- (abbreviation of okay): 'kay
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e?
Interjection
kay
- (colloquial) Abbreviation of okay.
Noun
kay (plural kays)
- The name of the Latin-script letter K.
- (colloquial) A kilometer.
- (colloquial) A thousand of some unit (from kilo-).
- Dated form of cay.
Derived terms
- (letter): okay, kayo
Translations
See also
- (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed
Anagrams
- kya, yak
Afar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?j/
Determiner
kay
- his
See also
References
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Aguacateca
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaj/
Noun
kay
- fish
References
- Julia Becker de Richards, Maya' Choltzij: vocabulario comparativo de los idiomas Mayas de Guatemala (2003)
- Ryan Bennett, Mayan Phonology (2015)
Dibabawon Manobo
Conjunction
kay
- because
Haitian Creole
Noun
kay
- house
Kalasha
Adverb
kay
- when
Conjunction
kay
- when
Noun
kay
- when
Pronoun
kay
- when
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish ceó (“mist”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?e?/
Noun
kay f (genitive singular kay, plural kayghyn)
- (weather) fog
Mutation
References
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 ceó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Mapudungun
Conjunction
kay (using Raguileo Alphabet)
- and
Quechua
Determiner
kay
- this
See also
- chay
- haqay
Noun
kay
- being, essence
Declension
Pronoun
kay
- this
Declension
Verb
kay
- to be
- to exist
- An auxiliary verb
Conjugation
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- cay (obsolete, Abecedario orthography)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kai/, [kxa??]
Preposition
kay
- Used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns
Adjective
kay
Turkish
Verb
kay
- second-person singular imperative of kaymak
Yapese
Verb
kay
- to eat
Yucatec Maya
Alternative forms
- cay (obsolete)
Etymology
From Proto-Mayan *kyar.
Noun
kay (plural kayo?ob)
- fish
References
- Academia de la Lengua Maya de Yucatán, A. C. (2003) Diccionario maya popular: Maya-español, español-maya (in Spanish), ?ISBN, page 91: “KAY”
- Barrera Vásquez, Alfredo et al. (1980) Diccionario maya Cordemex: Maya-español, español-maya (in Spanish), Mérida: Ediciones Cordemex, page 307: “KAY”
- Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746) Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 178: “Pexe. Cay.”
- Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., ?ISBN, page 60: “kay”
- Pío Pérez, Juan (1866–1877) Diccionario de la lengua maya (in Spanish), Mérida de Yucatán: Imprenta literaria, de Juan F. Molina Solís, page 45: “CAY, CAYIL: pez, pescado.”
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