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From Swedish Fårö.

Fårö

  1. A Baltic Sea island just north of the Swedish island of Gotland.

the island

From either Gutnish or Old Swedish Farøø, Faroyna, probably from a compound of a word related to English fare + a word related to Swedish ö (island). The folk etymology connecting it with får (sheep) is spurious.

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