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It's Esperanto, minus the diacritic on the "g" -- the word is forĝejo, meaning a place where things are forged (metalworking, not false documents). It's basically pronounced like the English word "forge" then "eh" then "yo".

Quite a lot of things are named in Esperanto like the cryptocoin Monero (coin), the watch brand Movado (movement), the last name of George Soros (will-soar, I'm not joking; his Esperantist father literally changed his family name to that)



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