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quaken

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See also: quäken

German

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *kwakōną (to quack), of onomatopoeic origin. Cognate with Dutch kwaken (to croak), English quack.[1]

Pronunciation

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

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

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

Conjugation

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References

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

Further reading

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

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Verb

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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

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Conjugation of quaken (weak in -ed or strong class 6)
infinitive (to) quaken, quake
present tense past tense
1st-person singular quake quaked, quok
2nd-person singular quakest quakedest, quoke, quok
3rd-person singular quaketh quaked, quok
subjunctive singular quake quaked1, quoke1
imperative singular
plural2 quaken, quake quakeden, quakede, quoken, quoke
imperative plural quaketh, quake
participles quakynge, quakende quaked, yquaked

1 Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English.
2 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: quake
  • Scots: quak

References

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