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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Faroe Islands, Faroish people or the Faroish language; Faroese.
  • noun A person from the Faroe Islands, Faroe Islander.
  • proper noun The language of the Faroe Islands, closely related to Icelandic, and more distantly to Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish.

Etymologies

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From Faroe +‎ -ish, after Icelandic færeyskur.

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