- quiver (v.)
- "to tremble," late 15c., perhaps imitative, or possibly an alteration of quaveren (see quaver), or from Old English cwifer-, perhaps related to cwic "alive" (see quick). Related: Quivered; quivering.
- quiver (n.)
- "case for holding arrows," early 14c., from Anglo-French quiveir, Old French quivre, probably from Proto-Germanic *kukur "container" (cf. Old High German kohhari, Old Frisian koker, Old English cocur "quiver"); said to be from the language of the Huns.