falsch
German (Berlin)
/falʃ/
adj
Definitions
- false, unfactual, untrue
- wrong incorrect
- wrong disadvantageous
- (chiefly) wrong immoral
- fake, forged
- untruthful, perfidious
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German vals derived from Old French fals derived from Latin falsus (false, deceived, counterfeit, falsehood, mistaken) derived from Middle Dutch valsch.
Origin
Middle Dutch
valsch
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- false English
- falsecard English
- falsed English
- falseface English
- falseful English
- falseheart English
- falsely English
- falsen English
- falseness English
- falsework English
- falsie English
- falsification English
- falsify English
- falsing English
- falsish English
- falsism English
- falsity English
- falsy English
- nonfalse English
- superfalse English
- unfalse English
- *fallita Latin
- falsificus Latin
- falsiloquium Latin
- falsimonia Latin
- falsitas Latin
- falsus Latin
- falsāre Latin
- falsārē Latin
- Aussage German
- Behauptung German
- Darstellung German
- Fahrer German
- Falschaussage German
- Falschbehauptung German
- Falschdarstellung German
- Falschfahrer German
- Falschheit German
- Falschinformation German
- Falschschreibung German
- Falschspieler German
- Grund German
- Information German
- Schreibung German
- Spieler German
- grundfalsch German
- fals Hungarian
- falso Italian
- vals Dutch, Flemish
- falsifier French
- фальшь Russian
- falso Spanish, Castilian
- *gʰwel- Proto-Indo-European
- falsk Norwegian Bokmål
- fałszować Polish
- falsk Norwegian Nynorsk
- fals Old English
- false Middle English
- faleš Czech
- falešný Czech
- fals Old French
- faulz Old French
- faus Old French
- fauz Old French
- faličan Serbo-Croatian
- fals Catalan, Valencian
- fals Icelandic
- fals Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- valsch Middle Dutch
- vals Middle High German
- fallco Albanian
- falso Old Portuguese
- falsch Middle Low German
- valsch Middle Low German
- baltz Cimbrian
- baltzar Cimbrian
- фальш Ukrainian
- fals Occitan
- fals Friulian
- falso Old Spanish
- fuals Dalmatian