different between isle vs cay

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ile, yle (with s added, similar to English island), borrowed from Old French ille, idle, isle, from Latin insula. Not related to island. Doublet of insula.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /a??l/
• Rhymes: -a?l
• Homophones: I'll, aisle

Noun

isle (plural isles)

1. A (small) island, compare with islet.

Derived terms

Related terms

• insulate
• insulation
• islet

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

isle (plural isles)

1. Obsolete spelling of aisle

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• %iles, Elis, Iles, Leis, Lise, Sile, iles, leis, lies, sile, slie

French

Noun

isle f (plural isles)

1. Obsolete spelling of île

Anagrams

• élis, îles, lies, liés, Lise, lise, sile, silé

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French isle, from Latin insula.

Noun

isle f (plural isles)

1. island

Descendants

• French: île, ile
  • Antillean Creole: zil
  • Haitian Creole: zil, zile
  • Mauritian Creole: zil

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *isula, from Latin insula.

Noun

isle f (oblique plural isles, nominative singular isle, nominative plural isles)

1. island

Descendants

• Middle French: isle
  • French: île, ile
    • Antillean Creole: zil
    • Haitian Creole: zil, zile
    • Mauritian Creole: zil
• Norman: île
• Walloon: iye
• ? Middle English: yle, ile
  • English: isle

Turkish

Verb

isle

1. second-person singular imperative of islemek

Antonyms

• isleme

English

Alternative forms

• key

Etymology

From Spanish cayo, from Taíno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki?/, /ke?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

cay (plural cays or cayes)

1. A small, low island largely made of sand or coral.

Related terms

• isle, islet, island, quay

Anagrams

• CYA, cya

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Persian ???? (jây).

Noun

cay (definite accusative cay?, plural caylar)

1. (Classical Azerbaijani) place

Declension

References

• “cay” in Obastan.com.

Jakaltek

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *kyar.

Noun

cay

1. fish

References

• Church, Clarence; Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano?^[1] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 47; 9

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [kaj??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [kaj??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ka(?)j??]

Adjective

cay • (?, ?, ????, ????, ????, ????, ????)

1. (of sensation) hot, spicy, or reminiscent of chili pepper

Derived terms