Fårö
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Fårö
- A Baltic Sea island just north of the Swedish island of Gotland.
Translations[edit]
the island
Anagrams[edit]
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From either Gutnish or Old Swedish Farøø, Faroyna, probably from a compound of a word related to English fare + a word related to Swedish ö (“island”). The folk etymology connecting it with får (“sheep”) is spurious.
Proper noun[edit]
Fårö
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- English proper nouns
- English terms spelled with Ö
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- en:Islands
- Swedish terms derived from Gutnish
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- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- sv:Islands