See also: quäken

German edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Verb edit

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

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

Conjugation edit

References edit

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

Further reading edit

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

Middle English edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

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 edit

Descendants edit

  • English: quake
  • Scots: quak

References edit