isle

See also: Isle, ísle, ìsle, and işle

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

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /aɪ̯l/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪl
• Homophones: I'll, aisle

Noun

isle (plural isles)

1. An island, usually very small. Compare with islet.

Derived terms

• Balearic Isles
• Black Isle
• British Isles
• Fair Isle
• Grand Isle
• 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 Portland
• Isle of Purbeck
• Isle of Sheppey
• Isle of Skye, see Skye
• Isle of Thanet
• Isle of Wight
• Scilly Isles, Isles of Scilly
• Small Isles
• tree isle

 

Related terms

• insulate
• insulation
• islet

Translations

isle — see island

Etymology 2

Noun

isle (plural isles)

1. Obsolete spelling of aisle.

Further reading

• “isle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• %iles, Elis, Iles, Leis, Lise, Sile, iles, leis, lies, sile, slie

French

Noun

isle f (plural isles)

1. Obsolete spelling of île.

Anagrams

• élis, îles, lies, liés, Lise, lise, sile, silé

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French isle, from Latin insula.

Noun

isle f (plural isles)

1. island

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)

1. island

Descendants

• Middle French: isle
  • French: île (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: île
• Walloon: iye
• → Middle English: yle, ile
  • English: isle

Turkish

Verb

isle

1. second-person singular imperative of islemek