verklickern

== German == === Etymology === Verklicker (“fly on the top of a ship showing wind direction”) +‎ -n, from Low German. A similar notion is found in zeigen / wissen woher der Wind weht. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fɛɐ̯ˈklɪkɐn/ === Verb === verklickern (weak, third-person singular present verklickert, past tense verklickerte, past participle verklickert, auxiliary haben) (informal) to explain, to clarify ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “verklickern” in Duden online “verklickern”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German) “verklickern” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon Gustav Goedel (1902), “Verklicker”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Seemannssprache (in German), Kiel und Leipzig: Lipsius & Tischer, page 497