different between brike vs blike

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English brice, from Proto-Germanic *brukiz.

Noun

brike (plural brikes)

1. A breach; ruin; downfall; peril.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

Walloon

Etymology

Of Germanic origin, from Middle Low German bricke and Middle Dutch brike, related to breken (“to break”). Cognate with French brique.

Noun

brike

1. brick

English

Etymology

From Middle English bliken, from Old English bl?can (“to shine, glitter, dazzle, sparkle, twinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *bl?kan? (“to gleam, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to shine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bla?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k

Verb

blike (third-person singular simple present blikes, present participle bliking, simple past bliked or bloke, past participle bliked or blicken)

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

Related terms

• blicant
• blick
• blicken
• bleak
• bleach
• bliken

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian bl?ka, from Proto-Germanic *bl?kan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?blik?/

Verb

blike

1. to appear

Inflection

Further reading

• “blike (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011