Meanings
- not comparableBetween islands.
interisland shipping
1 more example
Travel in Vanuatu has always had a significant element of danger. Most inter-island transport before World War II was by boat. Many of those vessels were only able to be registered in countries which had very lax shipping rules. Woodburn writes of the dramatic sinking of the inter-island vessel, Makambo, at her moorings in Vila harbour while being re-coaled.
2006, Ted Freeman, Doctor in Vanuatu, Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, →ISBN, page 73
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥tér
- Proto-Italic*n̥ter
- Latininter
- Latininter-
- Englishinter-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ékʷeh₂
- Proto-Germanic*awjō
- Proto-Indo-European*lendʰ-
- Proto-Germanic*landą
- Proto-Germanic*awjōlandą
- Proto-West Germanic*auwjuland
- Old Englishīeġland
- Middle Englishilond
- Englishiland
- Englishisland
- Englishinterisland
Cite this entry
interisland. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interisland
“interisland.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interisland. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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