o
Middle Low German
/œːj/
noun
Definitions
- island
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *awjō (island, waterland, floodplain, meadow).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*awjō
Gloss
island, waterland, floodplain, meadow
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
島
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Edenfield English
- Jersey English
- oe English
- *h₂ekʷeh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂ékʷeh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- øy Norwegian Bokmål
- *aiwaz Proto-Germanic
- *awjō Proto-Germanic
- *awjōlandą Proto-Germanic
- *bataz Proto-Germanic
- *falwaz Proto-Germanic
- halvö Swedish
- köksö Swedish
- Öland Swedish
- ö Swedish
- öbo Swedish
- önation Swedish
- örike Swedish
- östat Swedish
- øy Norwegian Nynorsk
- ieg Old English
- tūn Old English
- Suðreyjar Old Norse
- Vestmannaeyjar Old Norse
- ey Old Norse
- eyjamaðr Old Norse
- eyjóttr Old Norse
- eyland Old Norse
- ø Danish
- ey Icelandic
- eyja Icelandic
- oy Faroese
- oyggj Faroese
- *auwju gmw-pro
- öy Westrobothnian