#faroese — Public Fediverse posts
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#Germany has for centuries been a conglomerate of many tribes. The neighbour tribe of Alemannen gave the #French name Allemagne.
#Polish name #Niemcy comes from *němьcь - speechless - since German is not mutually intelligible with #Slavic languages.
#Faroese word for #Germany is #Týskland. It derives from Old High German work #diutisc (of or pertaining to the people or tribe). In #OldNorse it became þýðskr/þjóðskr and later formed #Tyskland in Scandinavian languages.
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#1N5817 Schottky Barrier Rectifying #Diode is one of many #semiconductors powering modern #technology.
#Faroese word for it is #hálvleiðari (#hálv - half-way + #leiðari - conductor), while #electrode is called #kleiv - a word that originally meant a "narrow cleft".
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#1N5817 Schottky Barrier Rectifying #Diode is one of many #semiconductors powering modern #technology.
#Faroese word for it is #hálvleiðari (#hálv - half-way + #leiðari - conductor), while #electrode is called #kleiv - a word that originally meant a "narrow cleft".
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#1N5817 Schottky Barrier Rectifying #Diode is one of many #semiconductors powering modern #technology.
#Faroese word for it is #hálvleiðari (#hálv - half-way + #leiðari - conductor), while #electrode is called #kleiv - a word that originally meant a "narrow cleft".
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#1N5817 Schottky Barrier Rectifying #Diode is one of many #semiconductors powering modern #technology.
#Faroese word for it is #hálvleiðari (#hálv - half-way + #leiðari - conductor), while #electrode is called #kleiv - a word that originally meant a "narrow cleft".
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#1N5817 Schottky Barrier Rectifying #Diode is one of many #semiconductors powering modern #technology.
#Faroese word for it is #hálvleiðari (#hálv - half-way + #leiðari - conductor), while #electrode is called #kleiv - a word that originally meant a "narrow cleft".
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I lost counting and keeping track but there's
#danish #swedish #norwegian #finnish #russian #polish #slovak #basque #catalan #bulgarian #hungarian #estonian #lithuanian #latvian #czech #turkish #swiss #viennese #slowanian #romanian #welsh #celtic #icelandic #irish #croatian #greek #albanian #serbocroatian #ukranian #belarussian #portugese #galic and #faroese -
The Faroese native #Angelica archangelica (#hvonn) was gathered in the wild and cultivated in gardens. It was served as a dessert, with cream or thick sour milk.
Crops such as #potatoes, #turnips and other roots were only grown in the small patches of cultivated soil. Wild plants have therefore been of some importance for the #Faroese people.
The village of #Hvannasund took its name from the plant - it's "the sound of angelicas".
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#Porkeri (pop. 317) is a #Faroese village on #Suðuroy.
Its name almost certainly derives from #purka - meaning #sow. There's a bit of speculation as to the word’s ending, believed to be a shortened version of #gerði (fenced-in plot of land / enclosure). If correct, #swine would have once been bred here.
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The #Faroese #WordOfTheYear 2023 is #vitlíki - artificial intelligence. It comes from words #vit (intelligence, brains) and #líki (equal, like).
Listeners of the ‘Góðan morgun #Føroyar morning radio programme have been sending in their nominations for their favourite new Faroese word. The judging panel, representing Faroese language and media institutions, settled on ‘#vitlíki’ as their word of the year 2023.