clingen

From Old Dutch *clingan, from Proto-Germanic *klinganą.

clingen

1. to sound, to resound

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• clinken

• Dutch: klingen, klinken
  • →⇒ French: clinquant
    • → English: clinquant
• Limburgish: klinge, klinke
• → Middle English: clinken
  • English: clink
  • Scots: clink

From Old Dutch *clingan, from Proto-Germanic *klinganą.

clingen

1. to cling, to stick
2. to wither, to wilt

• clinken

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

• clyngyn, clyng, clynge, cling

From Old English clingan, from Proto-Germanic *klinganą.

• IPA^(key): /ˈklinɡən/

clingen

1. To solidify; to adhere as to form a mass.
2. To stick or cling; to be or make oneself adhesive onto something.
3. To reduce, to decrease in size or vitality; to shrivel or whither
4. To shrivel or reduce as to disappear or end.
5. To be scared or frightened; to be struck by terror.
6. (rare) To insert oneself into something.

• clyngyng

• English: cling
• Scots: cling

• “clingen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-09.