English
Fakestine
Blend of fake + Palestine, referring to the purported inexistence of a land named Palestine.
Proto-West Germanic *fegōn ‘to clean up, polish’
Old Saxon fegōn
Middle Low German vēgen
German Low German fegen
English feague ‘to spruce up, embellish’
English fake
Ancient Greek Παλαιστίνη ‘Philistia and the surrounding region’
Latin Palaestīna ‘Roman province of Palestine’
Old English Palestina
Middle English Palestyne
English Palestine
The story
Blend of fake + Palestine, referring to the purported inexistence of a land named Palestine.
Today it means
name Palestine.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Fakestine