a small island, typically isolated · an island of any size; occasionally used to avoid repetition of Insel, otherwise poetic
çekim: çoğul Eilande · tamlayan Eilandes
eş: Holm, Insel, Oie
köken: From Middle High German eilant, einlant, from Middle Low German eilant (by which it was reinforced again during the 16th c.), from Old Frisian eiland, from Proto-West Germanic *auwjuland, from Proto-Germanic *awjōlandą. Cognate with Dutch eiland, English island, Icelandic eyland.
Er war so menschenscheu, dass er sein Leben am liebsten auf einem Eiland im Ozean verbracht hätte.
rock (mass of stone projecting out of water or just underwater) · skerry (small rocky island) · ground (bottom of a body of water whenever it produces a navigational hazard)
çekim: çoğul karit · tamlayan karin
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kari (compare Estonian kari), borrowed from late Proto-Norse [script needed] (*skarj(a)-) (compare Swedish skär, English skerry), from Proto-Germanic *skarją.