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.
island · peninsula · area, region, territory, section, district; any separated location, especially one delimited by natural boundaries
çekim: çoğul جَزَائِر · tamlayan جَزِيرَةٍ
köken: Likely an Aramaic topographic term, to be identified with Jewish Babylonian Aramaic גזרתא (“a heap or slab of wood or stone”) and Classical Syriac ܓܙܺܝܪܬܴ݁ܐ (gəzīrtā, “a heap or slab of wood or stone; merlon; door-ring, specifically Mesopotamia”), with the specific meaning of “island” but attested as Classical Syriac ܓܳܙܰܪܬܴ݁ܐ (gāzartā) and Old Armenian կղզի (kłzi) and Old Georgian კუნძული…
köken: From Middle Dutch eilant, from Old Dutch *eilant, from Old Frisian eiland, from Proto-West Germanic *auwjuland, from Proto-Germanic *awjōlandą, equivalent to ei (“island”) + land (“land”). The former part is from *awjō, the latter identical to modern Dutch land.
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.
a small island, an islet, a holm (normally uninhabited and typically more or less covered with trees) · a small (forested) hill, a mound, a knoll (surrounded by relatively flat terrain) · a designated place for a duel in early medieval Scandinavia, especially in Norway and Iceland (originally and often a holme in (sense 1) (small island))
çekim: çoğul holmar · tamlayan holmes
köken: From Old Swedish holmber, Old Norse holmr, from Proto-Germanic *hulmaz. Cognate with Icelandic hólmur (dative hólmi), German Holm. (sense 3) is a semantic loan from Icelandic hólmur.
aile: Holm, Holmberg, Lindholm, Stockholm, holmgång
köken: Etymology tree Polish wyspa Proto-Indo-European *-keh₂der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kāˀ Proto-Slavic *-ъka Old Polish -ka Polish -ka Polish wysepka From wyspa + -ka.
islet (especially a rocky one or one that is far from any larger land mass and is devoid of larger vegetation such as trees) · rock (small island with no or just a little vegetation, larger than kari)