blike (third-person singular simple present blikes, present participle bliking, simple past bliked or bloke, past participle bliked or blicken)
From Middle English bliken, from Old English blīcan (“to shine, glitter, dazzle, sparkle, twinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *blīkaną (“to gleam, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”). Cognate with West Frisian blike, Dutch blijken, German bleichen, Swedish blika, Icelandic blíkja. Related to blick.