Where does “falskr” come from?

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

Ancestry of “falskr”, step by step

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

Words derived from “falskr”

Every word from Swedish falsk →Every word from Finnish falski →Every word from Middle Low German valsch →