English Explanatory Dictionary

queal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To faint away.
verb
  1. Obsolete form of quail.

Word forms

queal queals quealing quealed

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.

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