falcon – English noun declension

Noun: falcon

Singular	falcon
Plural	falcons

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like falcon

soldier's woundwort, Nicosian, whopper, greypate, tactile sign language, chronotrope, Rosie Lee, dissentient, photoinactivator, sulphonediimine, coastal waterfall, residuary devise, bituminization, nitrosonaphthol, smṛiti, geosphere, backscreen, mensuralist, flocculate, flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. 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”).
2. Cognates
3. 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. See: Middle English Nouns 'faucoun', Middle English Nouns 'faucoun', Old English Nouns '*fealca', Dutch Nouns 'valk', German Nouns 'Falke', Swedish Nouns 'falk', Icelandic Nouns 'fálki', French Nouns 'faucon', Italian Nouns 'falco', Spanish Nouns 'halcón', Portuguese Nouns 'falcão', Latin Nouns 'falco'.

Verbs referencing "falcon"

Swedish Nouns falk.