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QueerEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
From queer.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗queerEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Germanic *térkʷos Proto-Germanic *térkwos Proto-Germanic *twérkos Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz Proto-West Germanic *þwerh Old Saxon thwerh Middle Low German queerbor. ▲ Proto-West Germanic *þwerh Old High German twërh Middle High German twër Middle High German quër German querbor. English queer Attested since about 1510, at first in Scots. Usually taken to be from Middle Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer (“oblique, off-centre”) or the related German quer (“diagonal”), from Old Saxon thwerh, from Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn, twist, wind”); compare Latin torqueō, and see more at thwart. The OED argues against this due to the semantic differences and the date at which the word appears in Scots. Began to be used to describe gay people in the late 1800s; see usage notes for more.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗queerEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Germanic *térkʷos Proto-Germanic *térkwos Proto-Germanic *twérkos Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz Proto-West Germanic *þwerh Old Saxon thwerh Middle Low German queerbor. ▲ Proto-West Germanic *þwerh Old High German twërh Middle High German twër Middle High German quër German querbor. English queer Attested since about 1510, at first in Scots. Usually taken to be from Middle Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer (“oblique, off-centre”) or the related German quer (“diagonal”), from Old Saxon thwerh, from Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn, twist, wind”); compare Latin torqueō, and see more at thwart. The OED argues against this due to the semantic differences and the date at which the word appears in Scots. Began to be used to describe gay people in the late 1800s; see usage notes for more.
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