queke

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• quack — I. intransitive verb Etymology: alteration of queck to quack, from Middle English queken, from queke, interjection, of imitative origin Date: 14th century to make the characteristic cry of a duck II. noun Date: 1798 a noise made by quacking III.… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• keku- —     keku     English meaning: a kind of stick or cudgel     Deutsche Übersetzung: etwa “keulenförmiger Stock, Stock with hammerartigem Quergriff”?     Material: Av. čakuš n. “Wurfhammer, Wurfaxt”, Pers. čakuš “hammer”; O.Pruss. queke ‘stecle”,… …   Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary