Quell

Variant of Quelle f.

• IPA^(key): /kvɛl/

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Quell m (strong, genitive Quelles or Quells, plural Quelle)

1. (poetic) source

   Quell der Freude ― source of joy

   • 1918, Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan‎, Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag:

     Delitzsch selbst, der Quell so mancher Heiterkeit, verbreitete Trauer in der Neuteutonia.

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• “Quell” in Duden online
• “Quell” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Quell” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

From Middle High German quelle, from Old High German quella, from Proto-West Germanic *kwalljā (“spring, well”).

• IPA^(key): /kvæl/, [kwæl]

Quell f (plural Quellen)

1. source
2. spring