The Etymology of “Chincough”
Abstract
I THINK your correspondent, ``M. D.'' (NATURE, October 28), is wrong when he says that the Dutch word kinken means to cough. There is a Dutch verb kinken, at least I find it in the list of Dutch words of de Vries and te Winkel, but I never heard it, nor do I know its meaning. Hoest is the Dutch for cough (German husten); the verb is hoesten. Kinkhoest is whooping-cough (the Dutch oe to be pronounced like the German u).
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- November 1915
- DOI:
- 10.1038/096316a0
- Bibcode:
- 1915Natur..96..316D