Fårö
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Fårö
- A Baltic Sea island just north of the Swedish island of Gotland.
Translations
[edit]the island
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[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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- en:Islands
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