Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A marshy spot; bog, quagmire; quicksand. · A heap or mess; a bad condition. · An unfirm layer of fat. · A throb or palpitation.
To throb; to quiver.
From Middle English quabbe, from Old English *cwabbe, from Proto-West Germanic *kwabbā (“soggy ground”). Compare Middle Low German quobbe (“swampy ground”), Middle High German quabbe (“marshy ground, unstable moorland”), whence Modern German Quabbe (“large bulge”). For the verb, compare German Low German quabbeln, quobbeln (“to tremble, vibrate”), German quabbeln (“to move back and forth as a squishy mass, wobble, jiggle”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionquabbeenm
- Inherited-form mention*cwabbeang
- Inherited-form mention*kwabbāgmw-pro · soggy ground
- Cognate mentionquobbegml · swampy ground
- Cognate mentionquabbegmh · marshy ground, unstable moorland
- Cognate mentionQuabbede · large bulge
- Cognate mentionquabbelnde · to move back and forth as a squishy mass, wobble, jiggle
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