iland

From Middle English iland, yland, from Old English īġland, īeġland (“island”). Cognate with Scots iland, yland (“island”). More at island.

iland (plural ilands)

1. Obsolete spelling of island.
   • 1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, pages 415–416:

     No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]

   • 1790, Tobias George Smollett, The Critical review, or, Annals of literature:

     This vast iland seems to have been first peopled by Fins and Laplanders, whom Ihre thinks the first inhabitants of the whole.

   • 1858, Thomas Wright, La mort d'Arthure:

     […] and there came against him king Marsill, that had in gift an iland of sir Galahalt the haute prince, and this iland had the name Pomitaine.

2. Misspelling of island.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “iland”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• Dilan, Ladin, Landi, Linda, Ndali, nidal

iland (not comparable)

1. alternative form of i land

• “iland”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “iland”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)