Etymology

Falkland

Fal·kland
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Today it means: A village and former royal burgh in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO2507). Full definition →

Scottish Gaelic falaichte ← Old English land
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromland
  2. Scottish Gaelic · borrowed fromfalaichte“hidden”
  3. English todayFalkland

From either Scottish Gaelic falaichte (“hidden”), failc (“bathe, wash”), or falc (“heavy rain”) + Old English land.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishland all →

landlandeLitherlandShirlandBigland

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.