German edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃɪkən/, [ˈʃɪkŋ̩]
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  • Rhymes: -ɪkŋ̩
  • Homophone: Chicken (according to one pronunciation of this word)
  • Hyphenation 1996: schi‧cken, pre-1996: schik‧ken

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle High German schicken (to outfit oneself, fit in, arrange appropriately), from Old High German *skihhen, from Proto-West Germanic *skikkijan, from Proto-Germanic *skikkijaną (to order, send). This represents the causative of Middle High German geschehen, geschēn (to happen, rush).

Akin to Middle English skekken (to send forth), Old English sċēon (to happen), Dutch schie- in schielijk (hasty). Related to English chic.

Verb edit

schicken (weak, third-person singular present schickt, past tense schickte, past participle geschickt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive, ditransitive) to send, to dispatch (a person, letter, money etc. to a destination or a person)
    Synonyms: senden, versenden, verschicken
    Antonyms: empfangen, erhalten, bekommen
    Sie hat mir einen Liebesbrief geschickt.
    She sent me a love letter.
  2. (reflexive) to hurry (rare)
  3. (reflexive) to be decent, to be appropriate
    Synonym: sich benehmen
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Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

schicken (weak, third-person singular present schickt, past tense schickte, past participle geschickt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to chew tobacco
    Synonym: priemen
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Further reading edit

Middle Dutch edit

Etymology edit

From Old Dutch *skikken, from Proto-West Germanic *skikkijan, from Proto-Germanic *skikkijaną (to make move). See German schicken (to send) above.[1]

Verb edit

schicken

  1. to arrange, to carry out, to get done
  2. to create, to bring to life
  3. to direct
  4. to determine, to assign
  5. (late) to send, to delegate

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Descendants edit

  • Dutch: schikken
  • Limburgish: sjikke

References edit

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “skekkjan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 442

Further reading edit