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English
Etymology 1
From Middle English ile, yle (with s added, similar to English island), borrowed from Old French ille, idle, isle, from Latin insula. Not related to island. Doublet of insula.
Pronunciation
Noun
isle (plural isles)
Derived terms
- Balearic Isles
- Black Isle
- Bradbury and the Isle
- British Isles
- enisle
- Fair Isle
- Grand Isle
- inisle
- isled
- isleless
- isleman
- Isle of Arran
- Isle of Britain
- Isle of Dogs
- Isle of Ely
- Isle of Grain
- Isle of Lewis
- Isle of Man
- Isle of Mull, see Mull
- Isle of Oxney
- Isle of Portland
- Isle of Purbeck
- Isle of Sheppey
- Isle of Skye, see Skye
- Isle of Thanet
- Isle of Wight
- islesman
- isleward
- islomania
- Scilly Isles, Isles of Scilly
- Small Isles
- St Patrick's Isle
- Summer Isles
- tree isle
Related terms
Translations
isle — see island
Etymology 2
Noun
isle (plural isles)
Further reading
- “isle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
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French
Noun
isle f (plural isles)
Anagrams
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French isle, from Latin insula.
Noun
isle f (plural isles)
Descendants
- French: île (see there for further descendants)
Old French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *isula, from Latin insula.
Noun
isle oblique singular, f (oblique plural isles, nominative singular isle, nominative plural isles)
Descendants
Turkish
Verb
isle
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