different between belick vs blick

English

Etymology

From be- +? lick.

Verb

belick (third-person singular simple present belicks, present participle belicking, simple past and past participle belicked)

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To lick or lick about.
   • 1690, Mundus Muliebris

     And Spanish paper, lip, and cheek / With spittle sweetly to belick […]

Anagrams

• Bickel, Bickle

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From a merger two Middle English verbs, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to shine”):

• blikken, blikien, bliken (“to shine gleam”, weak verb), from Old English blician, from Proto-Germanic *blik?n? (“to shine, sparkle”). Cognate with Dutch blikken (“to twinkle, turn pale”), German blicken (“to glance, look”), Swedish blicka (“to glance”), Icelandic blíka (“to shine, gleam”).
• bl?ken (strong verb), from Old English bl?can (“to shine, glitter, gleam”), from Proto-Germanic *bl?kan? (“to gleam, shine”). Cognate with West Frisian blike (“to appear”), Dutch blijken (“to appear”).

Cf. blike.

Verb

blick (third-person singular simple present blicks, present participle blicking, simple past and past participle blicked)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To shine; gleam.

Etymology 2

From German Blick (“look, glance, twinkle, flash”), from Middle High German blic, from Old High German blik, blich, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *blikiz (“shine, appearance, look”). Cognate with Dutch blik, Danish blik, Icelandic blik (“gleam, sheen”), Old English blice (“sheen, denuded site”).

Noun

blick (plural blicks)

1. The brightening or iridescence appearing on silver or gold at the end of the cupelling or refinishing process.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Verb

blick

1. singular imperative of blicken

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse blíkja, from Proto-Germanic *blik? (“look”), *bl?kan? (“to shine, gleam”).

Pronunciation

Noun

blick c

1. look (action of looking)
2. glance
3. gaze

Declension

Related terms

• inblick
• återblick
• blicka
• ögonblick