spiral wrote:ericwargo wrote:" More directly relevant to English, the ME "i-" sounds like "eye" to me, and indeed other words for island like eyot seem to support such a connection.
Maybe the ancient concept of (eye)land, (before maps) was that, from a high point, you could see all the land (with your eyes) was surrounded by water.
From the air Sark's Venus Pool (bottom right, sticking-out bit) is an easy to spot circle. Remarkably like an eye in fact. Maybe this thread could be re-named Bird's Eye Views over Megalithia?