English
quickborn
From quick + born.
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- ‘to live’
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Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz ‘alive’
Proto-West Germanic *kwiku ‘alive’
Old English cwic ‘alive’
Middle English quik ‘living’
English quick
Today it means
adj born alive; not stillborn
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “quickborn”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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