Other forms: quivers
A quiver is a slight rapid trembling. A quiver in his voice, a quiver of excitement, quiver with cold.
It is smaller and faster than a shake and is what a voice does when somebody is holding something back, which is why it appears so often in descriptions of restraint. A quiver is also the case an archer carries arrows in, from a different word.
1nounquiverA slight rapid trembling.
“A quiver ran through the dog's body as the thunder grew louder.”
quiver is a trembling.
QUIVer → the QUILL still shaking
The quill at the end of the arrow shakes for a moment after it lands.
hooks ontoquill
The trembling sense is imitative. The arrow case comes from Old French quivre, from a Germanic word.
German
Köcher
xgn-pro
*kökexür — leather vessel for liquids
Proto-West Germanic
*kokar — container
Anglo-Norman
quivre
Middle English
quiver
English, today
quiver
From Middle English quiver, from Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocar (source of Dutch koker, and cognate to Old English cocer (“quiver, case”)), from Proto-West Germanic kokar (“container”), said to be from xhc -, possibly from xgn-pro kökexür (“leather vessel for liquids”); see there for more. Replaced early modern a doublet of cocker, the inherited reflex of that West Germanic word. The mathematical sense originated as German Köcher in a 1972 paper by Pierre Gabriel; it was likely chosen because a quiver contains arrows, while a digraph contains directed edges (also called "arrows").
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA