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falcon

fal·con

UK/ˈfɔː(l)kən/ US/ˈfɒlkən/ fairly common
noun (1) verb (1)

noun

1.

verb

1.

hunt with falcons

  • “The Arabs like to falcon in the desert”

Origin

Inherited from Middle English faucoun, falcon, faulcon, from Old French falcun, from Late Latin falcō (“falcon”), of Germanic origin, probably via Frankish *falkō (“falcon, hawk”), from Proto-Germanic *falkô (“falcon”), from Proto-Indo-European *pol̑- (“pale”), from *pel- (“fallow”). Cognates Cognate with Old English *fealca, fealcen (“falcon”), Dutch valk (“falcon, hawk”), German Falke (“falcon, hawk”), Norwegian and Swedish falk (“falcon”), Icelandic fálki (“falcon”), French faucon (“falcon”), Italian falco (“falcon”), Spanish halcón (“falcon”), Portuguese falcão (“falcon”), Latin falco (“falcon”), Lithuanian pálšas (“pale”), Latvian bāls (“pale”), Latgalian buolgs (“pale”). More at fallow.

Phrases

  • Amur falcon
  • aplomado falcon
  • Barbary falcon
  • Berigora falcon
  • black falcon
  • blue falcon
  • brown falcon
  • Eleonora's falcon

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