quaken

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See also: quäken

German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Cognate with Dutch kwaken (to croak), English quack.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈkvaːkən/, [ˈkʰvaːkŋ]
  • (file)

Verb[edit]

quaken (weak, third-person singular present quakt, past tense quakte, past participle gequakt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (ducks) to quack
  2. (frogs) to croak

Conjugation[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “quaken”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading[edit]

  • quaken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • quaken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • quaken” in Duden online
  • quaken” in OpenThesaurus.de

Middle English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old English cwacian (to quake, tremble, chatter), from Proto-West Germanic *kwakōn, from Proto-Germanic *kwakōną. See English quake for more.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

quaken

  1. To tremble with fear or anger.
  2. To tremble from illness, cold, or heat.
  3. To shake; to quake.
  4. (figurative) To be scared (as if trembling)
  5. (rare) To shift from side to side.

Conjugation[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • English: quake
  • Scots: quak

References[edit]