Eyaot
Eyaot by loriuwu777 April 13, 2025
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Eyot
A small island, especially in the Thames.
You say it like the number eight. Anyone living along the River Thames upstream of London as far as about Windsor or Reading will know this word, as it’s commonly used in the names of the little islands that dot the river in those reaches. But for most British people it surfaces only as a curious term during commentaries on the Oxford-Cambridge boat race, when places like Chiswick Eyot are regularly mentioned. It’s from Old English iggath (or igeth), which is based on ieg, an island, plus a diminutive suffix. So—a small island. As you might expect from its Old English credentials, it turns up in a couple of places in J R R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings: “That night they camped on a small eyot close to the western bank”. An older form that’s more obviously connected to the way you say it is ait, a spelling retained in the names of some of the Thames islands and which Charles Dickens used in Bleak House: “Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls deified among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city”.
You say it like the number eight. Anyone living along the River Thames upstream of London as far as about Windsor or Reading will know this word, as it’s commonly used in the names of the little islands that dot the river in those reaches. But for most British people it surfaces only as a curious term during commentaries on the Oxford-Cambridge boat race, when places like Chiswick Eyot are regularly mentioned. It’s from Old English iggath (or igeth), which is based on ieg, an island, plus a diminutive suffix. So—a small island. As you might expect from its Old English credentials, it turns up in a couple of places in J R R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings: “That night they camped on a small eyot close to the western bank”. An older form that’s more obviously connected to the way you say it is ait, a spelling retained in the names of some of the Thames islands and which Charles Dickens used in Bleak House: “Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls deified among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city”.
Eyot by rentastrawberry October 26, 2004
Eyota, MN
A very small town SE of Rochester, MN with a population of around 1700 people. recreation in the town usually consists of disc golf, pot, and alcohol. There is One high school in the town made up of an extremely non-diverse group of students. the town really seems to have a knack for nothing changing and going absolutely no where. this small town has a large dependence on rochester; most parents work at IBM or Mayo Clinic. most youth claim that there is nothing to do and often head to rochester in hopes of finding something to occupy the extreme amounts of free time. In the end the town is largely ignored, having nothing in it worth while.
Eyota, MN by trinketmaster69 February 26, 2011