Noun: quicksilver
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like quicksilver
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English quyk silver, quyksilver, quikselver, from Old English cwicseolfor (“quicksilver”, literally “living silver”) (see Latin argentum vīvum) from its ability to move. See quick in the sense of "living". Cognate with Dutch kwikzilver, German Low German Quicksülver, German Quecksilber, Danish kviksølv, Norwegian Bokmål kvikksølv, Swedish kvicksilver. By surface analysis, quick (“living”) + silver. See: Middle English Nouns '
quyk silver', Old English Nouns '
cwicseolfor', Latin Nouns '
argentum vīvum', Dutch Nouns '
kwikzilver', German Nouns '
Quecksilber', Danish Nouns '
kviksølv', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
kvikksølv', Swedish Nouns '
kvicksilver'.
Verbs referencing "quicksilver"
German Nouns
Quecksilber, Polish Nouns
żywe srebro.