Where does “Faulschheit” come from?

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

Faulschheit (Plautdietsch): falsehood, duplicity

Definitions

  1. falsehood, duplicity

Ancestry of “Faulschheit”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Plautdietschfaulschfalse, wrong, incorrect, untrue
2Middle Low Germanvalschfalse, wrong; falsely, wrongly; fraud, trickery
3Finnishfalskifake, insincere, phony; false, spurious; out of...
4Swedishfalskfalse; untrustworthy
Every word from Swedish falsk →Every word from Finnish falski →Every word from Middle Low German valsch →