English
Quailgate
From quail + -gate.
Formed from quail + -gate
Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- ‘to hurt’
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Proto-West Germanic *kwelan ‘to suffer, to hurt’
Old Dutch *quelan
Middle Dutch queilen
Middle English quaylen ‘to be afflicted by disease or wasting’
English quail
Today it means
name The 2006 controversy over the accidental shooting of Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old Texas attorney, by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, while participating in a quail hunt on a ranch in Riviera, Texas.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Quailgate