isle

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.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /aɪ̯l/

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

isle (plural isles)

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

• insulate
• insulation
• islet

isle (plural isles)

1. Obsolete spelling of aisle

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

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

isle f (plural isles)

1. Obsolete spelling of île

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

From Old French isle, from Latin insula.

isle f (plural isles)

1. island

• French: île (see there for further descendants)

From Vulgar Latin *isula, from Latin insula.

isle oblique singular, f (oblique plural isles, nominative singular isle, nominative plural isles)

1. island

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

isle

1. second-person singular imperative of islemek