schicken

• 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

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), 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.

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

1. (transitive) to send

   Synonyms: senden, versenden, verschicken

   Antonyms: empfangen, erhalten, bekommen

2. (reflexive) to hurry (rare)
3. (reflexive) to be decent, to be appropriate

   Synonym: sich benehmen

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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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• “schicken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “schicken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “schicken (Kautabak kauen)” in Duden online
• “schicken (senden, holen, ertragen)” in Duden online

From Old Dutch *skikken, from Proto-West Germanic *skikkijan, from Proto-Germanic *skikkijaną (“to make move”). See Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) above.[1]

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

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: schikken
• Limburgish: sjikke

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