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Translation

to quarrel

Word origin

From Latin querela ('a complaint'), which reached the modern languages through French quereller and gave English quarrel.

Origin
Latin, via French
Root
querela
English cognates
quarrel, querulous

Examples

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The two brothers often quarrel about money.

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We quarrelled, but now we are friends again.

?

Why are you quarrelling with your friend?

You quarrel a person and a subject. is the heated domestic row; is the argument you can have politely across a table. The noun kverelo is the row itself.

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This word is part of lesson 29.