quier

Conjunction

 * 1)  whether; be it; whether it be; should it be

Usage notes

 * In Old Spanish, after the consonants /d/, /n/, /l/, /ll/, /r/, and /z/, a final /-e/ was frequently elided, as in, , , , , versus the modern forms of , , , , and (in modern Spanish, a few apocopes following coronal consonants are still preserved: , , , derived from , , and ).