quier

== Middle English == === Noun === quier (Late Middle English) alternative form of quer == Spanish == === Conjunction === quier ... quier (archaic) whether; be it; whether it be; should it be === Verb === quier apocopic form of quiere ==== Usage notes ==== In Old Spanish, after the consonants /d/, /n/, /l/, /ll/, /r/, and /z/, a final /-e/ was frequently elided, as in pid, vien, val, quier, faz, versus the modern forms of pide, viene, vale, quiere, and hace (in modern Spanish, a few apocopes following coronal consonants are still preserved: buen, gran, san, derived from bueno, grande, and santo). === Further reading === “quier”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025