different between quisling vs quilling

English

Etymology

Named after Norwegian military officer Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945), who ruled the Nazi collaborationist government of Norway during World War Two. From Quislinus, Latinization of Quislin, based on the Danish place name Kvislemark.

The name is seemingly supposed to mean "one who is from Kvislemark", and is equivalent to Kvislemark +? -ing (suffix designating a person of a certain origin or with certain qualities). Kvislemark is composed of Danish kvissel (“cleft branch”) +? mark (compare Danmark). kvissel itself is a derivative of Old Norse kvísl (“fork [as in a 'fork in the road']”), which ultimately comes (by dissimilation) from Proto-Germanic *tw?sil?. Cognates include Old English twisla (“confluence, junction, fork of a river or road”) and Old High German zwisila (“forked implement, twig, branch”).

Ultimately related to English twistle, twissel, and twizzle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw?z.l??/

Noun

quisling (plural quislings)

1. (derogatory) A traitor who collaborates with the enemy. [from 1940]

   Synonyms: collaborator, traitor, rat

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

quisling

1. present participle of quisle

See also

• fifth column

Further reading

• quisling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

After Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945), who ruled the Nazi collaborationist government of Norway during World War Two.

Noun

quisling c (singular definite quislingen, plural indefinite quislinge or quislinger)

1. a quisling (traitor who collaborates with the enemy. Especially one who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their country)

References

• “quisling” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

After Vidkun Quisling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??s.l??/
• Hyphenation: quis?ling

Noun

quisling m (plural quislingen, diminutive quislingetje n)

1. quisling

   Synonym: landverrader

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?isli??(i)/, [?k?is?li??(i)]

Noun

quisling

1. quisling

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

1940, after Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945), who ruled the Nazi collaborationist government of Norway during World War Two.

Noun

quisling m (definite singular quislingen, indefinite plural quislinger, definite plural quislingene)

1. a quisling (traitor who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their country)

References

• “quisling” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

As above.

Noun

quisling m (definite singular quislingen, indefinite plural quislingar, definite plural quislingane)

1. a quisling (as above)

References

• “quisling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

quisling m (plural quislings)

1. (derogatory) quisling (traitor who collaborates with the enemy)

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l??

Noun

quilling (countable and uncountable, plural quillings)

1. (obsolete) A band of fluted muslin resembling a row of quills.
2. A form of art that involves the creation of decorative designs from thin strips of curled paper.
3. Quillwork.
   • 1998, Tressa L. Berman, Chapter 4: The Community as Worksite: American Indian Women's Artistic Production, Ann E. Kingsolver (editor), More Than Class: Studying Power in U.S. Workplaces, page 83,

     In this way, quilling arts were integral to band organization and cooperation, and functioned both within and between households as items of ceremonial exchange (i.e., "crosscutting" private and public domains).

4. (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies) The practice of blowing pepper or snuff through a quill into the nose of a woman who is giving birth, to induce sneezing and diaphragmatic contractions which will induce or hasten labor.
   • 1915, Irving P. Fox (editor), The Spatula, Volume 22, page 466,

     Childbirth seldom was difficult, but when it was the simple process of "quilling" (which consisted in blowing at just the right time tobacco powder through the quill into the nostril) always brought on a huge sneeze, which immediately delivered the child.

   • 2003, Anita Price Davis, North Carolina During the Great Depression: A Documentary Portrait of a Decade, page 194,

     To muster the strength for the final push in childbirth, midwives like Granny Lewis of Burlington, North Carolina, quilled the mother-to-be. With quilling the midwife placed the snuff on one end of the straw and blew it into the nostril of the woman at the right time; the great sneeze that resulted from the woman was accompanied by the birth of the child. Granny Lewis and others used quilling well into the 1930s (Kirby, p192).

Verb

quilling

1. present participle of quill

See also

• quillwork