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 · 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.
island (relatively small amount of land surrounded by water in a river, sea, or ocean) · island (higher place in a swamp or forest)
çekim: çoğul salas · tamlayan salas
köken: There are different opinions on the origin of this word. Some derive it from Proto-Baltic *sel-, *sal-, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, a variant of *ser- (“to flow”); in this case, the original meaning would have been “stream, river,” from which “body of water”(cf. Lithuanian sálti (“to flow slowly”), Ancient Greek ἕλος (hélos, “swamp”) (< *selos), Sanskrit सरः (sáraḥ, “lake, pond”), perhaps…