Verb
(third-person singular simple present querks, present participle querking, simple past and past participle querked)
Origin
From Middle English querken, from Old English *cwiercan, *cweorcan (“to throttle, smother”), from *cweorc (“throat”), from Proto-Germanic *kwerkō (“gullet, throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷergʷ-, *gʷerkʷ-, *gʷerw- (“throat, neck”). Cognate with North Frisian querke, quirke (“to querk”), Danish kværke (“to throttle, strangle, suffocate”), Icelandic kyrkja, kvirkja (“to throttle, strangle”), Latin gurguliō (“throat”). More at gurgle.
