Where does “falsk” come from?

falsk (Danish) comes from Middle Low German valsch, from Finnish falski, from Swedish falsk — false; untrustworthy.

falsk (Danish): false; fake; counterfeit

Definitions

  1. false; fake; counterfeit

Ancestry of “falsk”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanvalschfalse, wrong; falsely, wrongly; fraud, trickery
2Finnishfalskifake, insincere, phony; false, spurious; out of...
3Swedishfalskfalse; untrustworthy

Words derived from “falsk”

Every word from Swedish falsk →Every word from Finnish falski →Every word from Middle Low German valsch →
falsk — Etymology, Origin & Word History | Etymology Explorer