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queal

verb

Etymology

From Middle English quelen, from Old English cwelan (“to die”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwelan, from Proto-Germanic *kwelaną (“to suffer”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to sting, pierce”). Related to Middle Dutch quelen, queilen. Doublet of quail.

  1. derived from *gʷelH-✻ — “to sting, pierce”
  2. inherited from *kwelaną✻ — “to suffer”
  3. inherited from *kwelan✻
  4. inherited from cwelan — “to die”
  5. inherited from quelen

Definitions

  1. To faint away.

  2. Obsolete form of quail.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for queal. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA