Qualm

qualm German de 2020 May 7 Alternative forms de Kwalm archaic rare Etymology 16th century, from de gml quallem vapor, steam, smoke. Cognate with nl kwalm. Usually considered a derivative of de quellen to well, swell up.Friedrich Kluge, revised by Elmar Seebold: Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache. 24th, checked through and expanded edition. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2001, 978-3-11-017473-1, p. 734. Alternatively with the common Low and Central German development dw-, tw- → qu- (as in de quer, de Quark etc.) from de osx dwalm benumbment, bemusement, cognate of goh twalm, ang dwolma. Further from de ine-pro *dʰeuə- spray, swirl, whirl. However, the documented meanings seem to speak against this. Pronunciation de /kvalm/ [kʋalm] [kv̥alm]Eva-Maria Krech, Eberhard Stock, Ursula Hirschfeld, Lutz Christian Anders et al.: Deutsches Aussprachewörterbuch: Mit Beiträgen von Walter Haas, Ingrid Hove, Peter Wiesinger. 1st edition. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2009, 978-3-11-018202-6, p. 853. de De-Qualm.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de Qualm de alm 1 Noun m,(e)s.sg smoke, particularly when very dense or regarded as unpleasant; fume de Rauch Schmauch de beißender, dichter, dicker, weißer, schwarzer Qualm acrid, dense, thick, white, black smoke/fumes de Zigarettenqualm cigarette smoke 1964, Dieter Noll, Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt: Roman einer Heimkehr (Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1964), page 307 (GoogleBooks; retrieved 19 July 2015) de Fern erhob sich die Silhouette der Brikettfabrik mit ihren Schloten, und die Schornsteine spien Qualm aus, schwarzen, undurchdringlichen Rauch, der sich wie ein Vorhang vor den Horizont legte. In dieser Wand aus Wolken und Qualm und Morgendunst stand blutrot die Sonnenscheibe. Far off rose up the silhouette of the briquette factory with its smokestacks, and those chimneys disgorged thick fumes, black, dense smoke, that drew before the horizon like a curtain. In this wall of clouds and thick fumes and morning haze stood blood-redly the Sun′s disc. Declension m,(e)s.sg Synonyms regional de Wasen/de Wrasen, de Brodel, de Schwalch, de Schwalk, de Schmok See also de Dampf de Dunst References Further reading