welken

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value); according to Kluge, ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *wolkn (“cloud”). Akin to Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), English welk.

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welken

1. to wither

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welken

1. (relative, dated) to which, to whom

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value). According to Kluge, ultimately from the root of Wolke (“cloud”).

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welken (weak, third-person singular present welkt, past tense welkte, past participle gewelkt, auxiliary haben)

1. to wither

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• Welkung
• verwelken

• Welken
• abwelken, dahinwelken, hinwelken
• welk

• “welken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “welken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “welken” in Duden online
• “welken” in OpenThesaurus.de

From Old English wolcnu, plural of wolcen, wolcn, from Proto-West Germanic *wolkn, from Proto-Germanic *wulkaną.

• welkne, welkene, wolken, wolkne, walkyn, wolkene, walkene, walkne, welkyn, walkon
• weolcne, wolcn, wlcne, wolcnu, walcne, weolkne, wolcne (early)

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛlkən/, /ˈwɛlk(ə)nə/, /ˈwɔlkən/, /ˈwɔlk(ə)nə/

welken

1. The atmosphere; the area where weather happens.
2. The space or air surrounding the Earth or; the heavens or welkin.
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Clerke of Oxenfordes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio liiii, verso, part 6:

     Thus hath this pytous day a blyſful ende / For euery man & woman doth hys myght / Thys daye in myrth and reuel to dyſpende / Tyl on the welken ſhone the ſterres bryght / For more ſolempne in euery mannes ſyght / Thys feeſt was, and greater of coſtage / Then was the reuel of her mariage

     Thus hath this piteous day a blissful end / For every man & woman doth his might / This day in mirth and revel to dispend / Till on the welkin shone the stars bright / For more solemn in every man's sight / This feast was, and greater of costage / Than was the revel of her marriage

3. A division or layer of this space; an atmospheric region.
4. (Early Middle English) A cloud (mass of water droplets)

• English: welkin

• “welken, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-20.

Possibly related to or from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) or Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *wolkn (“cloud”). Compare also Middle English walwen (“to fade, wither”), from Old English wealwian.

• welkyn, welke, welk

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛlkən/

welken

1. To become dry or aged; to decay or wither (of plants or people)
2. (rare) To crinkle or become roughened or creased.
3. (rare) To turn or grow desolate or lifeless.

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• English: welk
• Scots: welk

• “welken, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-20.