The story
- Middle English · learned borrowing fromquerele“altercation, dispute; argument, debate; armed combat; trial by combat; basis for dispute, complaint; claim, legal suit; a lament; illness”
- English todayquerele
Learned borrowing from Middle English querele (“altercation, dispute; argument, debate; armed combat; trial by combat; basis for dispute, complaint; claim, legal suit; a lament; illness”), whence modern English quarrel.
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishquerele all →
quarrel
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.