An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/zanken

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, Z
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis

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2556106An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, Z — zankenJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

zanken, verb, ‘to quarrel,’ from late Middle High German zanken, zęnken, ‘to dispute’; a remarkably late word, not recorded in the earlier Teutonic periods. Perhaps Middle High German zanke (a variant of Zinke), ‘prong, point,’ is the base of zanken, which must then have meant ‘to be pointed.’