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.
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
right of asylum, asylum, refuge, sanctuary (protection offered to a refugee) · asylum, refuge, sanctuary (safe place) · shelter (a place of safety for animals)
çekim: çoğul azyle · tamlayan azylu
köken: Etymology tree Latin asȳlumlbor. Polish azyl Learned borrowing from Latin asȳlum.
traffic island, refuge island (raised area in a roadway or traffic circle, bordered by curbs, used to control traffic) · traffic sign that directs the drivers to keep on either side of the sign
köken: Etymology tree Esperanto insulo Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Middle French -et French -etbor. ▲ Late Latin -ittus Italian -ettobor. Esperanto -et- Esperanto insuleto From insulo (“island”) + -et-.