Island
English
Proper noun
the Island
- (in New York City) Long Island (in New York State)
- (in British Columbia) Vancouver Island
- 2008, "Grizzlies at home on the Island", Times Colonist, 8 December 2008:
- A grizzly was photographed at Rugged Point near Kyuquot on the northwest coast of the Island in May, close to the time bears emerge from their dens, suggesting it had successfully hibernated on the Island.
- 2010, Beau Simpson, "One 'Grape escape' on Vancouver Island", Surrey Now, 12 October 2010:
- And so, my lovely girlfriend Kari and I headed to the Island for a weekend of wines and dines.
- 2011, Renee Andor, "His body hurts, but Vancouver Island circumnavigation record belongs to Angus", Comox Valley Record, 7 July 2011:
- Angus felt "fantastic" to have made it around the Island and beaten the record.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:Island.
- 2008, "Grizzlies at home on the Island", Times Colonist, 8 December 2008:
- (Britain, colloquial) HM Prison Parkhurst, a prison on the Isle of Wight.
Breton
Czech
Pronunciation
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Related terms
Danish
Estonian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈislˈɑnd̥/
Declension
Declension of Island (type riik)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | Island | Isilid |
genitive | Isili | Islandide |
partitive | Islandi | Islande / Islandisid |
illative | Islandi / Isilisse | Islandidesse |
inessive | Isilis | Islandides |
elative | Isilist | Islandidest |
allative | Isilile | Islandidele |
adessive | Isilil | Islandidel |
ablative | Isililt | Islandidelt |
translative | Isiliks | Islandideks |
terminative | Isilini | Islandideni |
essive | Isilina | Islandidena |
abessive | Isilita | Islandideta |
comitative | Isiliga | Islandidega |
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈiːslant/
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Declension
Greenlandic
Proper noun
Island
- Iceland
- 1980, "Pissusissamisoorpoq Island nunarpullu suleqatigiissappata" ("It is proper that Iceland and Greenland [lit: our country] are going to work together") , Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten
Livonian
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /islɑnd/
Proper noun
Island
- Iceland
- Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA
- Island – Island – Islande
- Iceland – Iceland – Iceland
- Island – Island – Islande
- Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA
Usage notes
Perhaps by error LĒL lists this term as type 127 – vȯņ which has consonant shift in genitive (vȯn) a pattern that is not possible for this term. Like for Kanād the most regular type (135 – āigast) is given in this entry.
Declension
Declension of Island (135)
Middle English
Norwegian Bokmål
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈiːslɑn/, /ˈiːslɑnd/
Derived terms
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ǐsland/
- Hyphenation: Is‧land
Declension
Declension of Island
singular | |
---|---|
nominative | Island |
genitive | Islanda |
dative | Islandu |
accusative | Island |
vocative | Islande |
locative | Islandu |
instrumental | Islandom |
Swedish
Derived terms
- islandshäst
- isländare
- isländsk
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