English

faken

From fake + -en.

Formed from fake + -en

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

Today it means

verb To make fake; to fake.

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