Where does “faulsch” come from?

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

faulsch (Plautdietsch): false, wrong, incorrect, untrue

Definitions

  1. false, wrong, incorrect, untrue

Ancestry of “faulsch”, step by step

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

Words derived from “faulsch”

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