Old English · noun

ieg

Normalised īeġ

Part of speech: noun, feminine
Declension: strong ō-stem
IPA: /i͜yːj/
Syllables: i͜yːj (1 syllable)
Modern English: island ey

Meaning

island
dry land in a marsh

Wulf is on īeġe, iċ on ōþerre. Fæst is þæt ēġlond, fenne biworpen. Sindon wælrēowe weras þǣr on īġe; willað hȳ hine āþeċġan, ġif hē on þrēat cymeð. Unġelīċe is us.

Wulf is on an island, I am on another. That island is steady, hemmed in by fens. There are kill-worried men on the island; they wish to take him, if he will come to the crowd. It is differently for us.
c. 980, Wulf and Eadwacer:

Declension

Declension of ieg
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	īeġ	īeġa īeġe
Accusative	īeġe	īeġa īeġe
Genitive	īeġe	īeġa
Dative	īeġe	īeġum

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *auwju, from Proto-Germanic *awjō, originally a substantive adjective of *ahwō (“river”) (> Old English ēa), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂. Cognate with Old High German ouwa (German Aue (“meadow”)), Middle Dutch ouwe, Old Norse ey (Swedish ö). More distantly related to Latin aqua (“water”).

Descendants

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