quaken

Cognate with Dutch kwaken (“to croak”), English quack.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈkvaːkən/, [ˈkʰvaːkŋ]

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quaken (weak, third-person singular present quakt, past tense quakte, past participle gequakt, auxiliary haben)

1. (ducks) to quack
2. (frogs) to croak

• “quaken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “quaken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “quaken” in Duden online
• “quaken” in OpenThesaurus.de

• quake, quakien, quakiȝen, quaake, qwaken, qwake, qwhake, kwaken
• cwakien, cwakie (Early Middle English)

From Old English cwacian (“to quake, tremble, chatter”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwakōn, from Proto-Germanic *kwakōną. See English quake for more.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwaːkən/

quaken

1. To tremble with fear or anger.
2. To tremble from illness, cold, or heat.
3. To shake; to quake.
4. (figurative) To be scared (as if trembling)
5. (rare) To shift from side to side.

• English: quake
• Scots: quak

• “quāken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.