Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗adj
Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo leave (a place). · To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate. · To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit. · To abandon, renounce (a thing).
From Middle English quiten, quyten, from Anglo-Norman quitter, Old French quitter, from quitte (“acquitted, quit”), ultimately from Latin quietus, which itself derives from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyéh₁-ti-s, from *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest”). Doublet of coy, quite, quiet, and quietus. Compare Dutch kwijten (“to quit”), German Low German quitten (“to quit”), German quitten, quittieren, Danish kvitte, Swedish qvitta, kvitta (“to quit, leave, set off”), Icelandic kvitta.
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- Root classification mention*kʷyeh₁-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionquitenenm
- Derivation mentionquitterfro
- Derivation mentionquietusla
- Doublet mentioncoyen
- Doublet mentionquiteen
- Doublet mentionquieten
- Doublet mentionquietusen
- Cognate mentionkwijtennl
- Cognate mentionquittende
- Cognate mentionkvitteda
- Cognate mentionqvittasv
- Cognate mentionkvittais
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