Where does “Quail” come from?
Quail (English) comes from Middle English quaylen, from Old French coaillier, from Vulgar Latin coaglare, from Latin coāgulō, from Latin coāgulum, from Latin cōgō, from Latin cōn-, from Latin cum — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
Quail (English): To waste away; to fade, to wither
Definitions
- To waste away; to fade, to wither
Ancestry of “Quail”, step by step
Quail traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle English quaylen
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | quaylen | To be afflicted by disease or wasting; to become... |
| 2 | Old French | coaillier | to curdle |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | coaglare | — |
| 4 | Latin | coāgulō | to curdle; make thick, solid |
| 5 | Latin | coāgulum | tie, bond, binding agent |
| 6 | Latin | cōgō | to collect, assemble, gather together |
| 7 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 8 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 9 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via Manx McPhail
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manx | McPhail | — |