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Definition: Faroese |
FaroeseNoun1. A Scandinavian language (closely related to Icelandic) that is spoken on the Faroe Islands. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Faroese (3 syl.). Belonging to the Faroe Islands; a native of the islands. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Faroese is a West Nordic or West Scandinavian language spoken by about 40,000 people in the Faroe Islands. It is one of two insular Scandinavian languages (the other is Icelandic), which have their origins in the Old Norse language spoken in Scandinavia in the Viking Age. Although the written form is very similar to Icelandic, in pronunciation it has gone its own path.
Faroese tradition was mostly oral until a standard for written Faroese was established in 1846 by Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb. This standard is highly influenced by the Icelandic spelling and is considered rather difficult. The most salient problem is the presence of eth in the spelling representing an Old Norse dental fricative that is no longer a Faroese phoneme.
Classification
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Faroese language."
Synonym: FaroeseSynonym: Faeroese (n). (additional references) |
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Economic History | Denmark | Ethnic groups: Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German. (references) |
Denmark | Languages: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), some German. (references) | |
Denmark | Since 1995, the Faroese economy has seen a noticeable upturn, but remains extremely vulnerable. (references) | |
Political Rights | Denmark | Greenlanders and Faroese are Danish citizens with the same rights as those in the rest of the Kingdom. (references) |
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| "Faroese" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Faroese" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 60% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (common) | 37.14% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.86% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 35 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "Faroese": non-faroese. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
faroese | 26 |
faroese shawl | 4 |
faroese language | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Faroese"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 费罗族 (Faeroese). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | Faaroish, Faaroagh. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | aroesefay färöisk (faeroese), färöbo (faeroese). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-o-r-s" | |
-2 letters: afore, arose, erase, erose, fares, faros, fears, fease, feres, fores, frees, froes, reefs, safer, saree, sofar. | |
-3 letters: aero, ares, arfs, arse, ears, ease, eras, eros, fare, faro, fear, fees, fere, foes, fora, fore, frae, free, froe, oafs, oars, ores, osar, rase, reef, rees, refs, roes, rose, safe, sear, seer, sera, sere, serf. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: fearsome. | |
+2 letters: defoamers, ecofreaks, feodaries, forebears, foredates, forefaces, foreheads, forenames, forepeaks, forespeak, forestage, foreswear, foretaste, fosterage, freeloads, overfears. | |
+3 letters: afforested, cofeatures, fearsomely, flowerages, forbearers, forcemeats, forecasted, forecaster, forecastle, foreladies, forepassed, forespeaks, forestages, foreswears, foretasted, foretastes, fosterages, freeboards, perforates, reafforest, reformates. | |
+4 letters: benefactors, cloverleafs, federations, feudatories, fleahoppers, forecaddies, forecasters, forecastles, forefathers, foregathers, forereaches, foreseeable, forestalled, forestaller, fourrageres, freeloaders, freemasonry, greaseproof, housefather, leafhoppers, overstaffed, profaneness, reafforests, refashioned, severalfold, softhearted, vociferates. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 72 6F 65 73 65 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- .-. --- . ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01110010 01101111 01100101 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a r o e s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0072 006F 0065 0073 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40678481718571 |
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