querk

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kwɜːk/   

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To throttle; choke; stifle; suffocate. transitive
  2. To grunt, croak, squeal; to moan, complain; to sigh, huff; to emit a breath forcibly, as after great exertion. intransitive
  3. To die. dialectal,intransitive

词形变化

querks present,singular,third-person querking participle,present querked participle,past querked past quirk alternative

词汇关系

相关词
querken

词源

From Middle English querken (also as querkenen), from Old Norse kvirkja (“to strangle”), from Proto-Germanic *kwirkijaną, from Proto-Germanic *kwerkō (“gullet, throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷergʷ-, *gʷerkʷ-, *gʷerw- (“throat, neck”). Cognate with Old Frisian querka ("to strangle"; > North Frisian querke, quirke (“to querk”)), Danish kværke (“to throttle, strangle, suffocate”), Icelandic kyrkja, kvirkja (“to throttle, strangle”), Middle Low German querken (“to strangle”), Middle Low German querke, quarke (“throat, gullet”), Old High German querka, querkela (“throat, gullet”), Latin gurguliō (“throat”). More at gurgle.
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