Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

enisle

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: enisle
IPA

6

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make into an island.

Transitive verb

verb

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"[…] long before England itself was enisled by the sea."
"[…] park-like belts of villas enisled by lawns […]"
"[…] no reply / Comes from the vast, enisling sphere / Of spirit, limitless, divine, / So far from me, so strangely mine."
"To-night, dear, / Let's forget all that, that and the war, / And enisle ourselves a little beyond time, / You with this Irish whiskey, I with red wine / While the stars go over the sleepless ocean,"
"[…] one in ten New Orleansians lived in the projects—some 50,000 souls more or less, almost all of them women with too many children, a gulag of women and children enisled by poverty."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- English isle English enisle From en- + isle.

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

enisles (present, singular) enisling (participle, present) enisled (participle, past) enisled (past) inisle (alternative)

Rhymes With

while style file smile mile last mile pile kyle chile awhile isle worthwhile

Questions

What does enisle mean?: To make into an island.
Where does enisle come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- English isle English enisle From en- + isle.

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