Word: 'quell' • Extended Annotations
Word: 'quell' • Extended Annotations
Middle English quellen "to kill"
from Old English cwellan "to kill"
akin to Old High German quellen "to torture, kill", quāla "torment"
For comparison:
German Quelle "well, spring, source"
from Old High German quella
from the same Proto-Germanic source as Old English cwiella, cwylla "spring, well, wellspring"
| ~☉~ | lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context |
| ⚜ | classic definition |
| ☣ | artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense |