quob

The story

1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*kwabbā“soggy ground”
2. Old English · inherited from*cwabbe
3. Middle English · inherited fromquabbe
4. English todayquob

From Middle English quabbe, from Old English *cwabbe, from Proto-West Germanic *kwabbā (“soggy ground”). Compare Middle Low German quobbe (“swampy ground”), Middle High German quabbe (“marshy ground, unstable moorland”), whence Modern German Quabbe (“large bulge”). For the verb, compare German Low German quabbeln, quobbeln (“to tremble, vibrate”), German quabbeln (“to move back and forth as a squishy mass, wobble, jiggle”).

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