Where does “quellere” come from?
quellere (Middle English) comes from Old English cwellere, from Old English cwellan, from Proto-West Germanic kwalljan, from Proto-Germanic kwaljaną, from Proto-Germanic -janą, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti, from Proto-Indo-European yé-, from Chichewa iye — he, she.
quellere (Middle English): Alternative form of queller
Definitions
- Alternative form of queller
Ancestry of “quellere”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old English | cwellere | — |
| 2 | Old English | cwellan | to kill; to slay |
| 3 | Proto-West Germanic | kwalljan | to make suffer, to hurt |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | kwaljaną | to make suffer, to hurt |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 8 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
Words derived from “quellere”