köken: From Middle High German insel, insele, isele, from Old High German isila, *insila, from Proto-West Germanic *isulā, *insulā, borrowed from Latin *isula, insula (“island”). Native Middle High German words for “island” were ouwe and wert; cf. modern Aue (“meadow by a river”) and Werder (“river island”). Other borrowings were eilant, einlant (from Old Frisian; see Eiland) and the rare īle (from Old…
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.
köken: From Byzantine Greek νησίν (nēsín), from Koine Greek νησίον (nēsíon), from a diminutive of Ancient Greek νῆσος (nêsos). Doublet of νήσος (nísos).
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.
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…