eeeloan

Yola

FWOTD – 30 January 2024

Alternative forms

eeloan, eelone, iloan

Etymology

Probably inherited from Middle English iland. Poole compares it to Irish oileán, but this seems unnecessary. The undiphthongised i-vowel is also found in e.g. eeren (“iron”), neen (“nine”), peepeare (“piper”), and the second syllable is the same as lhoan (“land”), hoane (“hand”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /iː.ˈloːn/

Noun

eeeloan

island

References

Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 37

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