•an islet, a small island, especially an artificial one and/or one that is close to a larger land mass · island (entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from it)
köken: Borrowed from Late Latin Oasis (“name of various oases”), from Ancient Greek Ὄασις (Óasis), from Demotic Egyptian wḥj, from Egyptian wḥꜣt (“oasis, cauldron”), G43-V28-G1-X1:N25.
island · a group of houses in a poor area of a town · a person who stands alone in defense of an idea
çekim: çoğul ilhas
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese illa, from Old Catalan illa, from Vulgar Latin *īsula, from Latin īnsula, whence also Spanish isla, Italian isola, French île and English isle. Doublet of inherited ínsua, from Old Galician-Portuguese inssoa, as well as the learned borrowing ínsula; both of these are rare or specialist.
island (piece of land smaller than a continent and surrounded by water) · insular cortex, insula
çekim: çoğul wyspy · tamlayan wyspy
eş: enklawa, gw. (Bukowina) osypka
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьzsъpъ/*jьzsъpa, with an innovative prefixation of wy- performing a similar function of *jьz/*jьz-. By surface analysis, deverbal from wysypać.
island (relatively small amount of land surrounded by water in a river, sea, or ocean) · island (higher place in a swamp or forest)
çekim: çoğul salas · tamlayan salas
köken: There are different opinions on the origin of this word. Some derive it from Proto-Baltic *sel-, *sal-, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, a variant of *ser- (“to flow”); in this case, the original meaning would have been “stream, river,” from which “body of water”(cf. Lithuanian sálti (“to flow slowly”), Ancient Greek ἕλος (hélos, “swamp”) (< *selos), Sanskrit सरः (sáraḥ, “lake, pond”), perhaps…
köken: Inherited from Old Catalan illa, from Vulgar Latin *isula (compare Occitan illa~iscla, French île, Spanish isla), from Latin īnsula (compare Portuguese ínsua).