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. - -sche (discuss) 05:05, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
 * 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.
 * Yes, this is understood by Germans but underused in Modern Standard German hence omitted by the post-classical dictionaries.
 * , sometimes with frequentative suffix as in, hence blitzen mixed with another blitzen related to , the root of which died out in German by 1600. Standard German now has  and sometimes  for eyes. Fay Freak (talk) 06:36, 27 December 2021 (UTC)