quell

Significat (Anglès)

Verb

1. (transitive) To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit.
2. (transitive) To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To kill.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To be subdued or abated; to diminish.
5. To die.

Noun

A subduing.

Noun

1. A source, especially a spring.
2. An emotion or sensation which rises suddenly.

Conceptes

sufocar

acabar

ofegar

interrompre

terminar

extingir

finir

🔚

plegar

arrestar

detenir

🛑

dominar

Sinònims

suppress

subdue

stop

🛑

quash

conquer

stifle

subjugate

choke

suffocate

vanquish

put down

repress

quench

calm

end

🔚

tame

quiet

crush

abate

halt

appease

prorogue

discontinue

staunch

pacify

overcome

lift

overpower

defeat

terminate

calm down

tranquillize

curb

smother

silence

squelch

kill

🔪🩸👤

coerce

beat

finish

assuage

chastise

conclude

beat out

placate

stay

defray

carry

debilitate

dampen

Traduccions

onderdrukken

neerslaan

réprimer

smoren

étouffer

sofocar

verkroppen

verstikken

soffocare

finire

einstellen

Einhalt gebieten

terminer

🔚

fermare

🛑

suffoquer

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/kwɛl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: quellen

Heretat de anglès antic: cwellan

Cognat amb alemany: quälen

Cognat amb suec: kvälja

Cognat amb islandès: kvelja

Cognat amb Classical Armenian: կեղ

Cognat amb eslau eclesiàstic: жаль

Heretat de anglès mitjà: *quelle

Heretat de anglès antic: cwylla

Cognat amb alemany: Quelle

In summary

From Middle English quellen, from Old English cwellan (“to kill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwalljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwaljaną (“to make die; kill”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-. Cognate with German quälen (“to torment; agonise; smite”), Swedish kvälja (“to torment”), Icelandic kvelja (“to torture; torment”). Compare also Old Armenian կեղ (keł, “sore, ulcer”), Old Church Slavonic жаль (žalĭ, “pain”). See also kill, which may be its doublet.