quivre

Old French

Alternative forms

cuivre, coivre, wirre

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)

quiver (for arrows)

Descendants

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

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (cuevre)

quivre on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

“quiver”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Barnhart, Robert K., ed., Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, H.W. Wilson Co., 1988.

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