quaccola

• quacara, quacquara, quaquara, quacula, qualea, quasquaila

Uncertain; possibly from Proto-Italic *kwakklā, from earlier *kwaktlā, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷóǵ⁽ʰ⁾-tl-eh₂, from *kʷeǵ⁽ʰ⁾- (“to flee”), or perhaps borrowed from cognate Proto-West Germanic *hwahtlā (“quail”). Possible doublet of cōturnīx, cocturnīx (“quail”). Apparently reborrowed back into Proto-West Germanic as *kwattulā.

First attested in the eighth-century Reichenau Glossary. The late attestation points to a borrowing from Germanic.

quaccola f (genitive quaccolae); first declension^[1] (Early Medieval Latin)

1. quail
   • a. 800, Cod. Augiensis perg. CCXLVIII, page 18v column 2 line 1 a fine:

     coturnix ·quaccola·

     coturnix means quail

First-declension noun.

• Italo-Romance:
  • Sicilian: quagghia
• North-Italian:
  • Friulian: cuaie
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Ligurian: quâgia
    • Piedmontese: quaja
  • Romansch: quacra
  • Venetan: quàja
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: câlye
  • Old French: cuaille, coaile, couaile, quail, quaile, quaille
    • French: caille
    • → Italian: quaglia
    • Middle English: quayle, quaile, quaille, queyle, qwayle
      • English: quail
      • Scots: quail
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: guatla
    • Catalan: guatlla, guatla
  • Old Occitan: catla, guatla
    • Occitan: catla, calha
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: gualla
  • Spanish: coalla (only attested once)
• Borrowings:
  • → Middle Dutch: quackel, quackele
    • Dutch: kwakkel
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *kwattulā (see there for further descendants)