Old English · noun
iegland
Normalised īeġland
- Part of speech
- noun, neuter
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /ˈi͜yːjˌlɑnd/
- Syllables
- ˈi͜yːj · ˌlɑnd (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- island
Meaning
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island
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
All forms (5)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *auwjuland, from Proto-Germanic *awjōlandą, equivalent to īeġ (“island”) + land (“land”). Cognate with Old Frisian alond, āland, eiland, Old Norse eyland.
Descendants
island
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