Similar tinkering was done with English at the same time: this is when "island" got its S, to make it more like Latin "insula"--and so on. (BTW, the Latin and English words have no actual connection. "Iland" originally meant "egg-land", from the shape--compare German "Eier.")
I am not sure which point you are trying to make, but the colloquial (and poetic) German word for a small island is "Eiland", which means, well, "egg-land"...
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