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#Faroese word for shell - #skel - sounds the same as in #English as both comes from Proto-Germanic *skaljō.
There are quite a few idioms related to #shells in Faroese:
* "sum skeljar" - said of bone-dry hay - literally means "like #shells"
*"liggja í skeljum" (lie in shells) is used when referring to something among other bits and pieces -
#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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#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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#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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#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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#Gekkur is a televised #bingo game with spinning wheel. Participants buy game cards at a local store (40 DKK) and follow along live on Kringvarp Føroya Tuesday evenings.
If they win, they call in to the show and enter a series of complicated bonus rounds...
Over the past 25+ years over 4200 lucky players won 120mm DKK in #Gekkur.
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#Spectators of the #B36 Tórshavn – #NSÍ Runavík match (3:0) in August 2015 were given #tickets for the game against FC Suðuroy.
#Faroese word for ticket is #atgongumerki (atgonga - admittance + merki - sign, stamp, badge).
Koyr á Føroyar #føroyskt #WordOfTheDay #football
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#Oyndarfjørður (pop. 126), mentioned in #Hundabrævið, was isolated until 1974 when a #road finally arrived.
The village name in #Faroese derives from the man’s name #Oyvindur.
The #church, a traditional wooden church with a #turf roof, was built in 1838.
At the beach you can see two rocking stones called #Rinkusteinar.
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#Funningsfjørður (pop. 59) is located at the bottom of an inlet. It's an outlying village from #Elduvík found in 1832 as #niðursetubygd.
Its name comes from the village of #Funningur - the noun #finningur means #find. Tradition says that the first viking on the #FaroeIslands, #Grímur Kamban, settled there.
The company #OceanRainforest is experimenting with #seaweed cultivation in the fjord, and at the port, up to 4k pallets are produced daily.
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#Hestur (pop. 15) is a #Faroese village on the island of Hestur. Its name refers to the ridge of the #island which resembles the back of a #horse - #hestur in #Faroese.
In 1919 a fishing accident resulted in the deaths of one-third of #Hestur's men. Following that accident and to fight the depopulation of the village a swimming #pool was built - it was opened in 1983.
The local #post office opens just once a week for only 90 minutes.
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#StartHereSocial Fun Fact #2
There are 15 servers listed that support a language classified as Vulnerable or Endangered by UNESCO
These spaces promote digital language equity and help safeguard cultural heritage, enabling communities to connect and express themselves in their own languages online.
#Brezhoneg
#Català
#Cymraeg
#Euskara
#Føroyskt
#Gaeilge
#Galo
#Gàidhlig
#Lëtzebuergesch
#Lombard
#Stellingwerfs
#Sámi
#TeReMāori
#беларускаямова -
#StartHereSocial Fun Fact #2
There are 15 servers listed that support a language classified as Vulnerable or Endangered by UNESCO
These spaces promote digital language equity and help safeguard cultural heritage, enabling communities to connect and express themselves in their own languages online.
#Brezhoneg
#Català
#Cymraeg
#Euskara
#Føroyskt
#Gaeilge
#Galo
#Gàidhlig
#Lëtzebuergesch
#Lombard
#Stellingwerfs
#Sámi
#TeReMāori
#беларускаямова -
#StartHereSocial Fun Fact #2
There are 15 servers listed that support a language classified as Vulnerable or Endangered by UNESCO
These spaces promote digital language equity and help safeguard cultural heritage, enabling communities to connect and express themselves in their own languages online.
#Brezhoneg
#Català
#Cymraeg
#Euskara
#Føroyskt
#Gaeilge
#Galo
#Gàidhlig
#Lëtzebuergesch
#Lombard
#Stellingwerfs
#Sámi
#TeReMāori
#беларускаямова -
#StartHereSocial Fun Fact #2
There are 15 servers listed that support a language classified as Vulnerable or Endangered by UNESCO
These spaces promote digital language equity and help safeguard cultural heritage, enabling communities to connect and express themselves in their own languages online.
#Brezhoneg
#Català
#Cymraeg
#Euskara
#Føroyskt
#Gaeilge
#Galo
#Gàidhlig
#Lëtzebuergesch
#Lombard
#Stellingwerfs
#Sámi
#TeReMāori
#беларускаямова -
#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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While most European #languages have quite a similar word for #mathematics, #Faroese just has to be an exception with the word #støddfrøði 🙂 Together with #Icelandic #stærðfræði...
The noun comes from the words #stødd (quantity, dimensions) and #frøði (science, -ology).
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While most European #languages have quite a similar word for #mathematics, #Faroese just has to be an exception with the word #støddfrøði 🙂 Together with #Icelandic #stærðfræði...
The noun comes from the words #stødd (quantity, dimensions) and #frøði (science, -ology).
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While most European #languages have quite a similar word for #mathematics, #Faroese just has to be an exception with the word #støddfrøði 🙂 Together with #Icelandic #stærðfræði...
The noun comes from the words #stødd (quantity, dimensions) and #frøði (science, -ology).
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While most European #languages have quite a similar word for #mathematics, #Faroese just has to be an exception with the word #støddfrøði 🙂 Together with #Icelandic #stærðfræði...
The noun comes from the words #stødd (quantity, dimensions) and #frøði (science, -ology).
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The #Faroese word for #ivy is #viðbendil. It literally means something that bends and twists (#benda) towards (#við) / in a certain direction
While #Hedera helix is not found naturally on the #FaroeIslands, it can be bought at local garden centres
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The #Faroese word for #ivy is #viðbendil. It literally means something that bends and twists (#benda) towards (#við) / in a certain direction
While #Hedera helix is not found naturally on the #FaroeIslands, it can be bought at local garden centres
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The #Faroese word for #ivy is #viðbendil. It literally means something that bends and twists (#benda) towards (#við) / in a certain direction
While #Hedera helix is not found naturally on the #FaroeIslands, it can be bought at local garden centres
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The #Faroese word for #ivy is #viðbendil. It means the wood (from #viður) that bends and twists (#benda).
While #Hedera helix is not found naturally on the #FaroeIslands, it can be bought at local garden centres
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#Faroese word for #sticker is #klistrimerki. It literally means "sticky sign" (at #klistra - to stick + #merki = sign).
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There are fifteen kinds of #fern in the #FaroeIslands. Most of them grow in clefts in rocks where there is moisture and shade.
trøll = troll + kampur = whiskers
The #Faroese word for fern is '#trøllakampar', which means '#troll's beard'.
The most common Faroese fern is the 'fragile fern' (cystopteris fragilis).
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English #Wikipedia's "{{Citation needed}}" has its #Faroese counterpart - "{{#Kelda vantar}}" (literally "lack of sources").
Always check your #sources.
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The #Faroese word for leaf is #leyv.
#Deciduous #trees are quite numerous on the islands. In 1979, 6000 small #Nothofagus plants were transferred from Tierra del Fuego to #FaroeIslands, making it the biggest population in Europe.
Another word for leaf is #blað. This one is an interesting one as it also means #sheet, #page, #newspaper, deck of playing cards and (kniie) blade. All of these quite thin and long, somehow resembling the shape of the #leaf...
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Steep mountains - that dominate #FaroeIslands landscape - are of #volcanic origin. Dark layers of #basalt alternate with the softer layers of reddish #tuff - stone made up of volcanic ashes.
These steep mountainsides are called #hamar (rocky wall). At the base a collection of broken rock fragments - called #scree - can quite often be found.
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The #Faroese word #epli originally meant #apple (and still does in biblical and poetical context). However, over time it became the term for #potato (otherwise termed #jørðepli = ground apple).
The “súr-“ prefix comes from the adjective #súrur (sour). The word #epli can thus be literally translated as "sour potato".
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Many #Faroese #neologisms reuse existing words. The word “#fløga” is not an exception. With its original meaning being the layer on a stack (of hay) and thick slice (of bread) it now also means the compact disc (#CD). The thick layer of data, perhaps?
Pictured is the debut album of the folk-metal band #Hamradun released in 2015. #Music CD would be called #ljómfløga in Faroese.
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Many #Faroese #neologisms reuse existing words. The word “#fløga” is not an exception. With its original meaning being the layer on a stack (of hay) and thick slice (of bread) it now also means the compact disc (#CD). The thick layer of data, perhaps?
Pictured is the debut album of the folk-metal band #Hamradun released in 2015. #Music CD would be called #ljómfløga in Faroese.
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Many #Faroese #neologisms reuse existing words. The word “#fløga” is not an exception. With its original meaning being the layer on a stack (of hay) and thick slice (of bread) it now also means the compact disc (#CD). The thick layer of data, perhaps?
Pictured is the debut album of the folk-metal band #Hamradun released in 2015. #Music CD would be called #ljómfløga in Faroese.
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Many #Faroese #neologisms reuse existing words. The word “#fløga” is not an exception. With its original meaning being the layer on a stack (of hay) and thick slice (of bread) it now also means the compact disc (#CD). The thick layer of data, perhaps?
Pictured is the debut album of the folk-metal band #Hamradun released in 2015. #Music CD would be called #ljómfløga in Faroese.
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The #Faroese word for #cloud is #skýggj. But there are a few dozen more specific ones.
Like #nyðra - fleecy cloud, which also means “tuft of #wool”. Or #róðrarskýggj - cloud which drifts slowly, not faster than the speed of a rowboat (#róðrarbátur)
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#Faroese word for #museum is #savn. It comes from the verb “at savna” - to gather, to round up (sheep).
The skeleton of the Pilot Whale at the exposition of the #Tjóðsavnið (#FaroeIslands National Museum).
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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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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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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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The bus stop at Gerðisbreyt in #Velbastaður.
One can send their post or enjoy the view over #Koltur while waiting for a bus no 5 or Saturday-only route 7 (connecting #Kirkjubøur with #Kollafjørður). And they're free, thanks to the local community council.
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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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#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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#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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#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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#Oyrareingir (pop. 45) is situated at the very head of the Kollafjørður-fjord on #Streymoy. Its name in #føroyskt comes from words #oyrar (from oyri) that means sandy spit and #eingir - a meadow.
This hamlet is so tiny and its few houses so dispersed among the 'outskirts' of the neighbouring villages of #Signabøur and #Kollafjørður that few maps mention it.
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#Kollafjørður (pop. 828) is #FaroeIslands #longest settlement. It stretches in a 7 km long strip along the fjord and lies at the foot of the #Dyllan mountain.
The rounded shape of the mountain gave the town its name (known since 1350-1400) - #kollur is #Faroese for “round top”.