different between fack vs falk

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

From Middle English *fak, fec, fæc (“space, compartment”), from Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; period of five years, lustrum”), from Proto-Germanic *fak? (“division, department, space”), from Proto-Indo-European *pÀ?- (“to fasten, fix”). Cognate with West Frisian fek, Dutch vak (“section, compartment”), German Fach (“compartment”), Swedish fack (“compartment, box, department”), Latin pang? (“fasten, fix”).

Alternative forms

• fec (obsolete)

Noun

fack (plural facks)

1. (Britain dialectal) One of the four stomachs of a ruminating animal; rumen; paunch.

Etymology 2

Verb

fack (third-person singular simple present facks, present participle facking, simple past and past participle facked)

1. (Britain, pronunciation spelling, Cockney) fuck

Swedish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

fack n

1. a compartment, a box, a slot (one of several)
2. a trade, a profession, a subject of expertise (seen as a compartment of the larger work life)
3. (informal) a trade union; clipping of fackförening.

Declension

Related terms

• (compartment): bankfack, frysfack, handskfack, postfack
• (trade): fackansluten, fackidiot, facklitteratur, fackombud, fackspråk, fackförbund, fackförening, facklig

See also

• placera någon i ett fack

English

Alternative forms

• falc
• faik

Noun

falk (plural falks)

1. (Britain, dialect) The razorbill.

Anagrams

• KLFA, flak

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse falki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /falk/, [fal???]

Noun

falk c (singular definite falken, plural indefinite falke)

1. falcon (bird of the genus Falco)

Inflection

Further reading

• falk on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German valk, via Old Norse falkr; compare with German Falke

Noun

falk m (definite singular falken, indefinite plural falker, definite plural falkene)

1. a falcon (bird of the genus Falco)

Derived terms

• vandrefalk

References

• “falk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German valk, via Old Norse falkr; compare with German Falke

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?lk/

Noun

falk m (definite singular falken, indefinite plural falkar, definite plural falkane)

1. a falcon, all birds in the genus Falco, most birds in the family Falconidae

Derived terms

• vandrefalk

References

• “falk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse falki. Compare German Falke, English falcon.

Pronunciation

Noun

falk c

1. falcon (bird of the genus Falco)

Declension

Derived terms

• pilgrimsfalk

Anagrams

• flak