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Pul  is shown by  pols,  pulse,  pouls,  polso, &c., to be a common term in medicine in the Middle Ages,   , and, ‘desk, writing-desk,’ from the  late  pult, , with the older variants pulpt, pulpet, pulpit. A later loan-word from pulpĭtum, ‘wooden platform,’ whence also  pulpito, ‘pulpit,’  pupitre, ‘desk’ ( pulpit).   ,, ‘powder, gunpowder,’ from pulver,  and , ‘dust, ashes’ (also in the 15th  ‘gunpowder’). From pulver ( poudre,  polvere).    (East variant ),, ‘pump,’  only,  a  word;  the   pomp,  pump. The further history of the word is obscure.   ,, ‘puppet, doll,’ even in late puppe, boppe, from the    pûpa, whence also  poupée, ‘puppet,’ poupon, ‘chubby child’ (from which  pop and  puppet are formed).  ,, ‘pure, downright, mere,’ only, from  purus. ,, ‘to tumble head over heels’ bürzle seems to suggest that this word is connected with. ,, ‘to blow, puff,’ only,  a  word; the strictly  forms are seen in  pfûsen, ‘to sneeze, snort,’ and pfiusel, ‘catarrh’ Akin to  pose, ‘catarrh’?.  ,, ‘turkey-hen,’ only, perhaps a  form of the cry of the bird. Its connection with pout (Turkey-pout) is not clear.  ,, ‘to deck, dress, polish,’ from late butzen, ‘to adorn.’   ,, ‘to shake or tremble’ (of fat and jelly), only,  a  word, which is usually derived from  quabbel ( kwabbe), ‘dewlap.’  ,, ‘quack’; only;  a  word; corresponding to  quack,  kwakzalver, a compound of zalf, ‘salve’ (  salbâni, ‘seller of ointment, physician’). The first part of the compound seems to come from the  (which see), ‘to boast’; hence, ‘boasting physician’?. <section end="Quacksalber" /> <section begin="Quader" /> ,, ‘squared stone,’ from the  quâder,  and , which is based on  quā̆drum, ‘square,’ or rather quā̆drus (scil. lapis), ‘square stone.’   quadro, ‘square,’  caire, ‘square stone’ ( quadrello,  carreau). <section end="Quader" /> ,, ‘to quack, croak,’ only,  a  word;   kwaken, ‘to croak,’ to which kwakken, ‘to make a noise,’ is allied,  to quack. A late onomatopoetic term. <section begin="Qual" /> ,, ‘torment, pain,’ from quâl, quâle (kále),  and  quâla, , ‘anguish, torture’;   kwaal, ‘pain,’  cwalu, ‘violent death.’ To this word is allied a  root   quëlan ( quëln), ‘to be in violent pain’ ( cwëlan, ‘to die’), of which the factitive is  ,  quęln,  quęllen (from *qualljan), ‘to torture,  torment to death.’ The  root qel (qal) is  connected with  gelti, ‘to prick’ (gélia, ‘it pains’), gėlà, ‘pain,’  žalĭ, ‘hurt’ (Aryan root gē̆l). <section end="Qual" /> <section begin="Qualm" /> ,, ‘vapour,’ only, formed from the   and  kwalm, the early history of which is obscure. It is identical probably with twalm, ‘stupor, faint.’ <section end="Qualm" /> <section begin="Quappe" /> ,, ‘eel-pout, tadpole,’ only, from  in which the  word quappa occurs (  kwab); the latter is  allied to  gabawo, ‘toad,’  żaba (from the  form *gêba), ‘frog.’ The assumption that the word is borrowed from  capito is less probable. <section end="Quappe" /> <section begin="Quark" /> ,, ‘curds, filth,’ from late twarc (g), quarc (zwarc), ‘whey cheese,’ which is usually connected with  twërn, ‘to turn, stir, mix.’ It is more probably related to the   cognates;   tvarogŭ,  tvarog. Since first appears in late, and is unknown to the other  languages, it may be assumed that it was borrowed from. . <section end="Quark" /> <section begin="Quart" /> ,, ‘quart, quarto,’ from quart,  and , ‘fourth part of anything’; formed like  kwart and  quart from the  cognates,  quarto,  quart. <section end="Quart" /> <section begin="Quarz" /> ,, ‘quartz,’ from the  quarz; its relation to  kwarts,  <section end="Quarz" />