Where does “quetsen” come from?

quetsen (Middle Dutch) comes from Old Dutch quezzon, from Old French quasser, from Latin quassō, from Latin -tō, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

Ancestry of “quetsen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Dutchquezzonto injure
2Old Frenchquasserto break; to annul; to quash
3Latinquassōto shake repeatedly, to quake
4Latin-tōForms here
5Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
6Proto-Italic-tus—
7Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “quetsen”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin -tō →