The story
- Cree · derived from*ᑸᐦᑾᐦᐋᒉᐤ
- English todayquickhatch
From East Cree *ᑸᐦᑾᐦᐋᒉᐤ (*kwiihkwahaacew) (modern Cree ᑮᐦᑿᐦᐋᐦᑫᐤ (kiihkwahaahkew, “wolverine”); compare Ojibwe gwiingwa'aage); assimilated to quick + hatch, omitting the middle syllable present in older forms.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.