querquedula

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂-, imitative of harsh sounds, from *ḱer-, same source as cornix (“crow”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʷɛrˈkʷɛ.dʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kʷerˈkʷɛː.d̪u.la]

querquedula f (genitive querquedulae); first declension

1. A kind of duck, perhaps the teal

First-declension noun.

• French: sarcelle

• “querquedula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• querquedula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN