Word definition: 'quell' • Lucid Lexicon

quell

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Middle English quellen "to kill"
from Old English cwellan "to kill"
akin to Old High German quellen "to torture, kill", quāla "torment"

quell verb

to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity

quell noun

obsolete: slaughter
archaic: the power of quelling

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German Quelle "well, spring, source"
from Old High German quella
from the same Proto-Germanic source as Old English cwiella, cwylla "spring, well, wellspring"

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