quivre

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Probably of West Germanic origin, from Old Dutch *cocar, from Medieval Latin cucurum, perhaps ultimately from Hunnic or Mongolian kökür; compare Proto-Mongolic *kökexür.[1][2] Also see Old English cocer (“quiver, case”).

Noun

quivre oblique singular, m (oblique plural quivres, nominative singular quivres, nominative plural quivre)

  1. quiver (for arrows)

Descendants

  • → Middle English: quiver, quyver, qwyver, qwywere, qwyvere, whyver
    • English: quiver

References

  1. ^ “quiver”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  2. ^ Barnhart, Robert and Steinmetz, Sol, editors (1988), “quiver”, in The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology‎[1], Bronxville, N.Y.: The H. W. Wilson Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 878, column 1.
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