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    Where did the term queasy come from, as in "I'm feeling queasy today?"

    Question #111778. Asked by 29CoveRoad. (Dec 29 09 11:41 AM)


    looney_tunes

    		queasy:
    "1459, coysy, possibly from Old Norse 'kveisa' ('boil'), perhaps influenced by Anglo-French 'queisier', from Old French 'coisier' ('to wound, hurt, make uneasy'), from the same Germanic root as 'kveisa'. But history is obscure and evidences of development are wanting."
    (Abbreviations used by the source dictionary have been expanded to make the entry more intelligible.)

    http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=queasy&searchmode=none

    Dec 29 09, 2:25 PM

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