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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).
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DUTCHMAN, A. The Etymology of “Chincough”. Nature 96, 316 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096316a0
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