Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo faint away.
From Middle English quelen, from Old English cwelan (“to die”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwelan, from Proto-Germanic *kwelaną (“to suffer”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to sting, pierce”). Related to Middle Dutch quelen, queilen. Doublet of quail.
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