quitch

(Inglese)

Noun

Elymus repens, couch grass (a species of grass, often considered a weed)

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To shake (something); to stir, move.
2. (UK, intransitive, regional) To stir; to move.
3. (intransitive) To flinch; shrink.

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/kwɪt͡ʃ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: quich

Ereditato da inglese antico: cwice

Affine olandese: kweek

Affine tedesco: Quecke

In summary

From Middle English quich, a palatalized variant of quike, quyke, from Old English cwice, from Proto-West Germanic *kwikwā, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwǭ. Cognate with Dutch kweek, German Low German Queek, German Quecke.

sinonimi

couch grass

twitch

dog grass

Bermuda grass

quick grass

blue couch grass

Traduzioni

Quecke

chiendent

kweek

perz

Agropyron

Elytrigia repens

grama

نجيل

ayrık otu

Hundszahn

Kriech-Quecke

αγριάδα