Note 251 — V
Reading edition
[‘Island’, though cognate with Anglo-Saxon eá-land “water-land” (German ei-land), is really identical with Anglo-Saxon íg-land, i.e. “isle-land”, from íg, an island, the diminutive of which survives in eyot or ait.]
Reading edition
[‘Island’, though cognate with Anglo-Saxon eá-land “water-land” (German ei-land), is really identical with Anglo-Saxon íg-land, i.e. “isle-land”, from íg, an island, the diminutive of which survives in eyot or ait.]