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quejar
(Verb) "to complain"
12th cent. From Vulgar Latin *
quassiare
'id.,' from Latin
quatere
"to shake" (see
cutir
).
Indo-European
Romance
Portuguese
queixar
, French
casser
, Italian
quassare