![]() ![]() “Quiver” is related to the Old English word cwiferlice (sound it out and you’ll see the connection), and this word meant “zealously.” But “quiver” has been used with its present definition, at least as a noun, since the 1300s. This is another one of those “why, English language, why?” spelling differences, isn’t it? It starts getting a bit wild when you think about adjective and adverb forms of this words-”quivery” and “quiveringly” versus “quavery” and “quaveringly”-but they are all indeed distinct words. “quaver” – did you already know this difference?
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