quaken

See also: quäken

German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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

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

Conjugation

References

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

Further reading

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkwaːkən/

Verb

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

Descendants

  • English: quake
  • Scots: quak

References

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