different between blicken vs slicken

English

Etymology

From Middle English bliknen (“to glitter, grow pale”), from Old Norse blíkna (“to become pale”). Influenced by Middle English bliken (“to shine”), from Old English bl?can (“to shine, glitter, gleam”). More at blike, blick.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?n

Verb

blicken (third-person singular simple present blickens, present participle blickening, simple past and past participle blickened)

1. (intransitive) To become pale.
2. (intransitive) To shine.

German

Etymology

From Middle High German blicken, from Old High German blicchen, from Proto-West Germanic *blik, from Proto-Germanic *blik? (“look”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bl?k??/, /?bl?k?n/
• Rhymes: -?k??

Verb

blicken (weak, third-person singular present blickt, past tense blickte, past participle geblickt, auxiliary haben)

1. (intransitive) to look (usually in a certain direction toward something)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• schauen

Derived terms

Further reading

• “blicken” in Duden online
• “blicken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “blicken” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

blicken

1. definite singular of blick

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?n

Etymology 1

From slick +? -en.

Verb

slicken (third-person singular simple present slickens, present participle slickening, simple past and past participle slickened)

1. (transitive) To make slick.

Derived terms

• rain-slickened
• water-slickened

Etymology 2

Adjective

slicken (comparative more slicken, superlative most slicken)

1. (Britain, dialect) sleek; smooth

Anagrams

• Nickels, Nickles, nickels, nickles, snickle

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *slikkon, from Proto-Germanic *slikk?n?, from Proto-Indo-European *ley??- (“to lick”).

Verb

slicken

1. to swallow

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: slikken
• Limburgish: slikke

Further reading

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “slicken (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page II