Where does “falconer” come from?
Falconer comes from Middle English fauconer, from Old French falconer, formed with the Old French agent suffix -er from Latin -are, derived from Latin -arius with the nominative singular ending -us, ultimately from Proto-Italic -os.
falconer (English): A person who breeds or trains hawks or other...
Definitions
- A person who breeds or trains hawks or other...
Ancestry of “falconer”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | fauconer | A falconer |
| 2 | Old French | falconer | falconer (person who breeds or trains hawks) |
| 3 | Old French | falcon | Alternative form of faucon |
| 4 | Old French | faucon | falcon; Alternative form of fauchon |
| 5 | Late Latin | falco | falcon |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | falkō | falcon |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | falkô | falcon |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pōl- | — |
| 9 | Slovincian | pól | half |
| 10 | Proto-Slavic | polъ | side, flank; half; member of a pair of options →... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)pelH- | to split off, separate; to chop, to separate |