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falcon

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See also: Falcon, falcón, and Falcón

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

Originally, the l was silent and purely etymological. Its pronunciation began through spelling pronunciation and is followed by most speakers, though some speakers still use l-less pronunciations.

Noun

falcon (plural falcons)

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  2. Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.
  3. Any bird of prey of the subfamilies Falconinae and Herpetotherinae.
  4. (falconry) A female such bird, a male being a tiercel.
  6. (historical) A light cannon used from the 15th to the 17th century.
    Coordinate term: falconet

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Verb

falcon (third-person singular simple present falcons, present participle falconing, simple past and past participle falconed)

  1. To hunt with a falcon or falcons.
    • 2003, Brenda Joyce, House of Dreams, page 175:
      He rode astride while hawking; she falconed in the ladylike position of sidesaddle.

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Noun

falcon m

  1. kestrel

Middle English

Noun

falcon

  1. alternative form of faucoun

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