Word Origin Summary

Færøerne is attested in Danish. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. FæreyjarOld Norseinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Ixołe Fær Øer

  Venetian · derived from

• Faeröer

  Dutch · derived from

• Faeröer

  Dutch Low Saxon · derived from

• Fær Øer

  Sardinian · derived from

• Savalimmiut

  East Greenlandic · derived from

• Ìsuli Fær Øer

  Sicilian · derived from

• Fær Øer

  Italian · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root