English

falseheart

From false + heart.

A compound of false + heart

Latin fallō ‘to deceive’

Latin falsus ‘counterfeit, false’

Old English fals ‘false; fraud’

Middle English false

English false

Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd-

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Proto-Germanic *hertô

Proto-West Germanic *hertā

Old English heorte

Middle English harte

English heart

Today it means

noun Wood that gives an erroneous impression of being heartwood.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / falseheart