köken: From Old French girfaut, gerfault or Provençal gerfalt, gerfalc, both from Old Norse geirfalki, from geiri (“a type of dart”) + falki (“hawk”) (because of the resemblance to the bird's plumage).
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…