different between falk vs dalk

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

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English dalke, dalk, from Old English dalc (“clasp, buckle, brooch, bracelet”), from Proto-Germanic *dalkaz (“clasp, pin”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?elg- (“to stick; needle, pin”). Cognate with Icelandic dálkur (“cloak-pin”), Latin falx (“scythe”). Doublet of falx.

Noun

dalk (plural dalks)

1. A pin; brooch; clasp

Etymology 2

From Middle English dalke; perhaps a diminutive of dale, dell. In that case from Old English *daluc, from Proto-Germanic *dalukaz.

Alternative forms

• delk

Noun

dalk (plural dalks)

1. (now rare) A hollow or depression.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 120:

     On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk, Van set out for Ladoga, N.A.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch dadelijk, whence also the Afrikaans doublet dadelik (“immediately”). For a possible sense shift from “immediately” to “possibly” compare dialectal English drekly from directly. Note, however, that the Dutch adjective also used to mean “really, actually, indeed” (for which now daadwerkelijk, inderdaad); from this the Afrikaans sense can be derived simply through semantic weakening.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dalk/

Adverb

dalk

1. perchance, perhaps, possibly

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English dalc, from Proto-Germanic *dalkaz.

Noun

dalk

1. Alternative form of dalke (“brooch”)

Etymology 2

From Old English *daluc.

Noun

dalk

1. Alternative form of dalke (“depression”)