Talk:blicker

I see mentions of other Germanic languages having analogues of this, bli(c)k- extended with -er, though I've yet to find evidence of it in Middle English.

• 1620, Cornelis Kiel, Etymologicum Teutonicae linguae ...

  blickeren / blicken. Micare.

• 1764, François Halma, Het groot woordenboek der Nederlandsche en Fransche taelen: getrocken uyt de beste schryvers, naementlijk uyt het woorden boek van P. Richelet ..., page 83:

  Blicken, blickeren, flickeren, [...] Briller, réluire, éclater, étinceller.

- -sche (discuss) 05:05, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

@-sche: Yes, this is understood by Germans but underused in Modern Standard German hence omitted by the post-classical dictionaries.

“blicken” in Frühneuhochdeutsches Wörterbuch, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 1986–., sometimes with frequentative suffix as in necksen, hence blitzen mixed with another blitzen related to English blithe, bliss the root of which died out in German by 1600. Standard German now has blinzeln and sometimes blinken for eyes. Fay Freak (talk) 06:36, 27 December 2021 (UTC)