*falkô
Runic: ᚠᚨᛚᚲᛟ Pronunciation: /ˈɸɑl.kɔːː/noun · masculine · an-stem
Meanings
falcon
Etymology
Probably from a Proto-Germanic color base *fal- ‘pale, grayish, yellowish-brown’, related to *falwaz (‘pale, gray, fallow’), with a zoonymic *-k-extension, perhaps the same animal/bird-name suffix seen in *habukaz (‘hawk’), *alkǭ (‘a kind of sea bird, auk’), and Proto-West Germanic *kranuk (‘crane’) (Krahe & Meid 1969; Olsen 1999). A close semantic parallel is Old Prussian *pelē ‘harrier’, which (Mažiulis 1996) explains as a color-based bird name meaning ‘the grayish/brownish one’, from Proto-Baltic *pelā-/*pela- ‘grayish, brownish’, ultimately from Proto-Balto-Slavic *(s)pel- ‘shine weakly, shimmer’. Mažiulis explicitly connects Old Prussian *palvē (Proto-Baltic *palva-;) (Proto-Baltic *palva-;, ‘grayish, brownish’) with Proto-Germanic *falwaz and favors a Proto-Indo-European verbal root *(s)p(H)el- ‘shine weakly, shimmer’.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nom. | falkô | falkaniz |
| Acc. | falkanų | falkanunz |
| Gen. | falkiniz | falkanǫ̂ |
| Dat. | falkini | falkammaz |
| Inst. | falkinē | falkammiz |
| Voc. | falkô | falkaniz |
Descendants
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*falkō (Proto-West Germanic)
- falcō (Late Latin)
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*falkō (Proto-West Germanic)
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*falco (Old Dutch)
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valke (Middle Dutch)
- valk (Dutch)
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valke (Middle Dutch)
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*falco (Old Dutch)
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*falkō (Proto-West Germanic)
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*fealca, *falca (Old English)
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falk, fylkere (Middle English)
- falk, fauk, faik, facky, feckie (Scots)
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falk, fylkere (Middle English)
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*fealca, *falca (Old English)
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*falkō (Proto-West Germanic)
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*falka (Old Frisian)
- Falke (Saterland Frisian)
- falk (West Frisian)
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*falka (Old Frisian)
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*falkō (Proto-West Germanic)
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falco, falko, falcho, falc (Old High German)
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valke (Middle High German)
- Falke, Falk (German)
- Fallek (Luxembourgish)
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valke (Middle High German)
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falco, falko, falcho, falc (Old High German)
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*falkō (Proto-West Germanic)
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falko (Old Saxon)
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falke, valke (Middle Low German)
- falki (Old Norse)
- Faulkj (Plautdietsch)
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falke, valke (Middle Low German)
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falko (Old Saxon)
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*falkō (Proto-West Germanic)
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falko (Old Saxon)
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falke, valke (Middle Low German)
- Falk (Low German)
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falke, valke (Middle Low German)
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falko (Old Saxon)
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falkr (Old Norse)
- falk (Danish)
- falkur (Faroese)
- falk (Swedish)
- falk (Norwegian Bokmål)
- falk (Norwegian Nynorsk)