köken: Sino-Vietnamese word from 島 (“island”). In the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651), there were several terms glossed as "island" (Portuguese ilha): cù lao, núi nước, gò nước, gò bẻ (i.e. gò bể), gò biẻn (i.e. gò biển). Among these, only cù lao survived into current-day Vietnamese, although gò was still used to some extent until the early 20th century (see there for written…
köken: Etymology tree Slovak ostrov Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Balto-Slavic *-inas Proto-Slavic *-ьnъ Old Slovak -ný Slovak -ný Slovak ostrovný From ostrov + -ný.