köken: From Middle French cresserelle, crecerelle (“bird of prey”), usually assumed to be from crecelle (“rattle, wooden reel”) (modern crécelle), of obscure origin. Cognates possibly include: Medieval Latin clisterella f, English kestrel, Neapolitan castariello m and crestariello m, all sharing the same meaning. Derivation from the assumed *Vulgar Latin crepicella, *crepitacillum, a diminutive of…
köken: From *šuŋqar (“falco”), probably from a Mongolic source, compare Mongolian шонхор (šonxor, “falco”). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (šuŋqar, “Falco gyrfalco”); Tatar шоңкар (şoñqar, “falcon”), Kazakh сұңқар (sūñqar, “falcon”), Kyrgyz шумкар (şumkar, “Falco rusticolus”), Uzbek shunqor (“Falco rusticolus”). Further, the mentioned Mongolic archetype may have been borrowed from a Turkic…
falcon · pigeon-toed person, person whose toes point in
çekim: çoğul falcōnēs · tamlayan falcōnis
köken: Uncertain and disputed origin, but probably from Germanic given the early attestation and widespread use of the word in Germanic. Perhaps from Old High German falco, falcho, falucho (“falcon”), from Proto-West Germanic *falkō, from Proto-Germanic *falkô (“falcon", literally, "grey bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *polH-, *pelH- (“grey, bluish”) + *-(u)k-, a suffix found in the names of several…