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isle

noun
/aɪ̯l/UK

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from insula
  2. derived from ille
  3. inherited from ile

Definitions

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

  2. Obsolete spelling of aisle.

  3. A minor city in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, United States.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A commune near Limoges, Haute-Vienne department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

    2. A river in Somerset, England, which flows into the River Parrett.

    3. A river in southwestern France, which flows into the Dordogne.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at isle. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at isle. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at isle

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA