Where does “quitte” come from?
quitte (Middle French) comes from Old French quite, from Latin quiētus, from Latin quiēscō, from Latin quiēs, from Proto-Italic kʷiētis, from Proto-Indo-European kʷyéh₁tis, from Proto-Indo-European kʷyeh₁- — to rest; rest, peace.
Ancestry of “quitte”, step by step