Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Of a duck, to make its characteristic vocalisation. · To make a sound similar to the quack of a duck. · Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
The vocalisation made by a duck.
A duck's quack.
From Middle English *quacken, queken (“to croak like a frog; make a noise like a duck, goose, or quail”), from quack, qwacke, quek, queke (“quack”, interjection and noun), also kek, keke, whec-, partly of imitative origin and partly from Middle Dutch quacken (“to croak, quack”), from Old Dutch *kwaken (“to croak, quack”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwakōn, from Proto-Germanic *kwakaną, *kwakōną (“to croak”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian kwoakje, kwaakje (“to quack”), Middle Low German quaken (“to quack, croak”), German quaken (“to quack, croak”), Danish kvække (“to croak”), Swedish kväka (“to croak, quackle”), Norwegian kvekke (“to croak”), Icelandic kvaka (“to twitter, chirp, quack”).
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- Inherited-form mention*quackenenm
- Derivation mentionquackendum
- Derivation mention*kwakenodt
- Derivation mention*kwakōngmw-pro
- Derivation mention*kwakanągem-pro
- Cognate mentionkwoakjestq
- Cognate mentionquakengml
- Cognate mentionquakende
- Cognate mentionkvækkeda
- Cognate mentionkväkasv
- Cognate mentionkvekkeno
- Cognate mentionkvakais
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