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Re: Island

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Monday, May 15, 2000, 15:14
James Campbell wrote:

>From another source, there seems to be a Dutch cognate _ouw_ (_ooi_ in
placenames). Perhaps our Nederlands contingent could help here with
details?>

I've been waiting for that too.  As a non-native reader of Dutch, I can add:
eiland.  IIRC, there's also a place name _Het Ei_ which I somehow doubt
means _The Egg_.