Quinch
/kwɪntʃ/noun
An obsolete or dialectal form of “quench,” meaning to extinguish or suppress.
Did you know?Quinch preserves an older spelling pattern related to “quench,” whose Germanic ancestry described something going out or being extinguished.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*gweng-
“To extinguish or cause to go out; a reconstructed ancestral root associated with quenching.”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*kwankijaną
“To extinguish; the causative form of a verb meaning to go out or disappear.”
Old English
Old English
ācwencan
“To quench, extinguish, or destroy by putting out.”
Middle English
Middle English
quenchen / quinchen
“To put out a fire or suppress something; “quinchen” was a spelling variant.”
Modern English
English
quinch
“An obsolete or dialectal variant of “quench,” now largely replaced by the standard form.”