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queal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
queal
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To faint away.

British usage; Intransitive verb

verb

Obsolete form of quail.

Obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English quelen, from Old English cwelan (“to die”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwelan, from Proto-Germanic *kwelaną (“to suffer”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to sting, pierce”). Related to Middle Dutch quelen, queilen. Doublet of quail.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: quelen, cwelan, *kwelan, *kwelaną, *gʷelH-

Usage

Inflected Forms

queals (present, singular) quealing (participle, present) quealed (participle, past) quealed (past)

Questions

What does queal mean?
To faint away.
Where does queal come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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