schicken

• schiken (obsolete)

• 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 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.

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.

   Mein Chef will mich nach Frankfurt schicken, um an den Verhandlungen teilzunehmen.

   She boss wants to send me to Frankfurt to take part in the negotiations.

2. (reflexive, Southern Germany, uncommon) to hurry
4. (reflexive, chiefly in the negative) to be befitting, to be appropriate

   Synonym: sich gehören

   Es schickt sich nicht, das zu sagen. ― It is not befitting to say such a thing.

Borrowed from French chiquer.

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

1. (intransitive, regional) to chew tobacco

   Synonym: priemen

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

schicken

1. inflection of schick:
   1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
   2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
   3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
   4. strong dative plural
   5. weak/mixed all-case plural

• “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 German schicken (“to send”) 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