Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo throttle; choke; stifle; suffocate. · To grunt, croak, squeal; to moan, complain; to sigh, huff; to emit a breath forcibly, as after great exertion. · To die.
From Middle English querken (also as querkenen), from Old Norse kvirkja (“to strangle”), from Proto-Germanic *kwirkijaną, from Proto-Germanic *kwerkō (“gullet, throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷergʷ-, *gʷerkʷ-, *gʷerw- (“throat, neck”). Cognate with Old Frisian querka ("to strangle"; > North Frisian querke, quirke (“to querk”)), Danish kværke (“to throttle, strangle, suffocate”), Icelandic kyrkja, kvirkja (“to throttle, strangle”), Middle Low German querken (“to strangle”), Middle Low German querke, quarke (“throat, gullet”), Old High German querka, querkela (“throat, gullet”), Latin gurguliō (“throat”). More at gurgle.
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- Inherited-form mentionquerkenenm
- Derivation mentionkvirkjanon · to strangle
- Inherited-form mention*kwirkijanągem-pro
- Derivation mention*kwerkōgem-pro · gullet, throat
- Derivation mention*gʷergʷ-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionquerkaofs
- Cognate mentionquerkefrr
- Cognate mentionkværkeda · to throttle, strangle, suffocate
- Cognate mentionkyrkjais
- Cognate mentionquerkengml · to strangle
- Cognate mentionquerkegml
- Cognate mentionquerkagoh
- Cognate mentiongurguliōla · throat
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