Blick German · revision 35223

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=9th–10th century, Old High German glosses|origins=gem-pro *blikaz}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * [blɪk]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''Blick''' ''m'' (genitive Blickes or Blicks, plural Blicke)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|gmh|blic]], [[inh|goh|blik]], [[inh|gem-pro|*blikaz|t=shine, gleam]].^(Pfeifer 1993)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler AHD) The same word is [[gml|blick]], [[dum|blic]], [[nl|blik]], [[ang|blice]] and [[non|blik]].^(Pfeifer 1993)^(DWB2|5, 417) Kluge treats the noun together with the verb [[blicken]], while the Revised Grimm calls the noun a back-formation from the verb.^(Kluge 2011|133)^(DWB2|5, 417)

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+ Kluge derives the group from [[gem-pro|*blekk-]] or [[m|gem-pro|*blikk-]] with intensive gemination, which can be connected either with [[m|gem-pro|*bleik-|t=to shine]] or with a verb [[m|gem-pro|*blek-|t=to gleam]].^(Kluge 2011|133) It is thus related to [[bleich]], [[Blech]], [[blecken]] and [[Blitz]].^(Kluge 2011|133)^(Duden 7 2020|155)^(Paul 2002) Wiktionary and Köbler take it back to [[ine-pro|*bʰleyǵ-|t=to shine]], Köbler with a question mark.^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler AHD)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Old High German ''blic'' is recorded in glosses of the 9th or 10th century and in Notker, meaning “flash, lightning, beam of light, gleam”.^(Köbler AHD)^(Pfeifer 1993) Notker (before 1022) speaks of the gleam of the inner sweetness appearing to the running waters.^(DWB2|5, 417) The verb ''biblicken'' is older, from the 8th century.^(Pfeifer 1993)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Old and Middle High German ''blic'' was the ordinary word for lightning, and Luther still wrote of ''Blicken des Blitzes'';^(Paul 2002) Goethe's Werther has a neighbour who ''sah den Blick vom Pulver'' (“saw the flash of the powder”).^(Paul 2002) Miners spoke of the ''Silberblick'', the sudden gleam of silver in the furnace.^(Paul 2002)^(Adelung 1793) The shift to the eye began in Old High German and was complete in Middle High German: the quick look of the eye was understood as a beam of light sent out by it.^(Pfeifer 1993)^(Paul 2002)^(Kluge 2011|133) Middle High German ''ougenblic'' meant both “a flash of the eyes” and the short span of a glance, the modern [[Augenblick]].^(Pfeifer 1993)

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+ The word then also came to mean what one sees, a view or outlook, and judgement or discernment (''einen Blick für etwas haben'').^(Paul 2002)^(Duden GWDS 1999) ''Blickfeld'' was entered in the Duden in 1929 and ''Blickfang'', modelled on English ''eye-catcher'', in 1937.^(Paul 2002) Polish ''blik'' (1689) and [[ru|блик|tr=blik]] (1725) borrowed it as a painter's term for a highlight.^(LWP)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 8th century – Old High German ''biblicken'' is recorded.^(Pfeifer 1993)

+ * 9th–10th century – ''blic'' appears in glosses, meaning “flash, gleam”.^(Köbler AHD)^(Pfeifer 1993)

+ * Before 1022 – Notker uses the word for a gleam of light.^(DWB2|5, 417)

+ * About 1195 – Hartmann writes of the ''sunnen blic'', the sun's light.^(DWB2|5, 417)

+ * 1689 – Polish borrows ''blik'' as a painting term.^(LWP)

+ * 1725 – Russian ''блик'' is recorded.^(LWP)

+ * 1929 – ''Blickfeld'' appears in the Duden.^(Paul 2002)

+ * 1937 – ''Blickfang'' appears in the Duden.^(Paul 2002)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|glance]], a look: ''Sie warf einen kurzen Blick auf die Uhr.''^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # One's eyes as directed somewhere: ''den Blick senken''.^(Duden GWDS 1999)

+ # The expression of the eyes: ''ein misstrauischer Blick''.^(Duden GWDS 1999)

+ # A [[m|en|view]], an outlook: ''ein Hotel mit Blick auf die Berge''.^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Judgement, an eye for something: ''einen Blick für Details haben''.^(Duden GWDS 1999)

+ # ''(dated)'' A sudden [[m|en|flash]] of light.^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Paul 2002)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[Augenblick]]

+ * [[Anblick]]

+ * [[Ausblick]]

+ * [[Blickwinkel]]

+ * [[Blickfang]]

+ * [[Blickfeld]]

+ * [[Rundblick]]

+ * [[Tunnelblick]]

+ * [[Überblick]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[blicken]]

+ * [[bleich]]

+ * [[Blech]]

+ * [[blecken]]

+ * [[Blitz]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Auf den ersten Blick'' “at first sight” and ''einen Blick werfen'' “to cast a glance” are recorded by Adelung.^(Paul 2002) ''Der böse Blick'' is the evil eye.^(Duden GWDS 1999) The Grimms also record a separate ''Blick'', a name of a small fish (the bleak), which Hohberg describes.^(DWB|2, 116)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}