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Old French
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
References
- ^ “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.