Where does “Falkner” come from?
Falkner is an English surname derived from falconer, an occupational name for someone who kept or trained falcons for hunting.
Ancestry of “Falkner”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Falconer | A person who breeds or trains hawks or other birds of prey |
| 2 | Middle English | fauconer | A falconer |
| 3 | Old French | falconer | falconer (person who breeds or trains hawks) |
| 4 | Old French | falcon | Alternative form of faucon |
| 5 | Old French | faucon | falcon; Alternative form of fauchon |
| 6 | Late Latin | falco | falcon |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | falkō | falcon |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | falkô | falcon |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pōl- | — |
| 10 | Slovincian | pól | half |
| 11 | Proto-Slavic | polъ | side, flank; half; member of a pair of options →... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)pelH- | to split off, separate; to chop, to separate |