User:Arne List



Hi, I am Arne from Kiel, Germany. I am male, 40 years old. My main interest are the Scandinavian languages, especially Faroese, though my Danish is much more fluent. However, my mother tongue is German.

At the German Wiktionary, I was building up a comprehensive section about Fareose with a lot of examples and etymology. This took sometimes hours for only one entry. Here, I want to work faster and first create smaller entries, but cover a much bigger vocabulary (1.000 + as the first goal). This has also the advantage, that I don't need seven books on my table, but only one or two. The used books are for now:


 * W. B. Lockwood: An Introduction to Modern Faroese. Tórshavn 1977 (with glossary Faroese-English)
 * Richard Kölbl: Färöisch Wort für Wort. Bielefeld 2004 (with glossary German-Faroese, Faroese-German, à 1000 entries)

Other important works include:
 * Höskuldur Þráinsson, et al.: Faroese - An Overview and Reference Grammar. Tórshavn 2004
 * Johan Winther Poulsen, et al.: Føroysk orðabók. Tórshavn 1998 (dictionary Faroese-Faroese, 65,700 entries)
 * V. U. Hammershaimb, Jakob Jakobsen: Færøsk Antholgi. Copenhagen 1891 (Tórshavn 1991) (2 volumes, including Grammar and dictionary Faroese-Danish, 10,000 entries)

Føroysk orðabók online
While I begun with my work at the English Wiktionary about Faroese, went the Føroysk orðabók (Faroese dictionary) online: http://www.obg.fo/fob/fob.php Note, that there is no substitution for the letters Á,Í,Ó,Ú,Ý,Ð,Æ,Ø, and you really have to type them (I recommend a change to FO or IS keyboard in your system settings, if you want to work with it).

Unfortunately, they use another URL encoding of those letters, than the Wiki variable put out. Who knows, how to work around, in order to create a template for links from every entry here to the source there?

Example reyðkál. gives

rey%C3%B0k%C3%A1l

But at the online dictionary, they use

rey%F0k%E1l

Under this circumstances, I cannot use the PAGENAMEE variable for the link :-( -- Arne List 12:06, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

My favourite work
Here are some entries of the Faroese category, where I mean, they are quite comprehensive and "finished" and hopefully interesting and entertaining:
 * ígða (finches)