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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/sickern

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sickern, verb, ‘to trickle, drop,’ Modern High German only, from Low German?. Compare Anglo-Saxon sicerian, ‘to trickle, ooze’; allied to seichen and sinken (Teutonic root sī̆k, sī̆h, from Aryan sig, sik).