Iland

Origin

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

Full definition of iland

Noun

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of island
• 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.