kwijten
Dutch (Brabantic)
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to lose
- (transitive) to quit
- (reflexive) to acquit oneself (of some job or task)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch quiten derived from Old French quiter derived from Latin quieto, quiētāre.
Origin
Latin
quieto, quiētāre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- acquit English
- bananaquit English
- grassquit English
- orangequit English
- quit English
- quitline English
- quitrent English
- quitsies English
- quittable English
- quittal English
- ragequit English
- quieto, quiētāre Latin
- quiētō Latin
- kvitta Swedish
- quiten Middle English
- quiter Old French
- quiten Middle Dutch
- qvitta Old Swedish