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In addition to Anglo-Saxon and French stock brought here by the fur trade, late 19th-century immigration campaigns have given Manitoba thriving communities of Ukrainian, German, Jewish, Polish, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, and even Icelandic origin, with more recent arrivals from Asia and the Philippines.
English eyebrow and German Augenbraue are matched by Swedish ögenbryn , Norwegian øyebryn , Danish øjenbryn , Icelandic (Old and Mod.) augabrún , Faroese eygnabro .
An old Icelandic word hvarma eyelid persists in archaic style in Modern Icelandic as well as in Faroese, where it is in competition with eygnalok .
Windows is compounded from the Icelandic words vindr `wind' + auga `eye,' a window being the eye of a house.
Yet, apart from such figurative and poetic language, Icelandic seems not to confuse lids and lashes.
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