 The root is not Gaelic and of unknown origin.In seventeenth-century maps the spelling appears as "Yla" or "Ila", a form still used in the name of the whisky Caol Ila.In poetic language Islay is known as "Banrìgh Innse Gall", or "Banrìgh nan Eilean" usually translated as "Queen of the Hebrides" and "Eilean uaine Ìle" – the "green isle of Islay" A native of Islay is called an "Ìleach", pronounced .