Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt. · A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans. · An individual serving of milk. · An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Germanic *meluks Proto-West Germanic *meluk Anglian Old English milc Middle English mylk English milk From Middle English mylk, milk, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), from Proto-West Germanic *meluk (“milk”), from Proto-Germanic *meluks (“milk”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“milk, to milk”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian molke (“milk”), Dutch melk (“milk”), Dutch Low Saxon melk (“milk”), German Milch (“milk”), German Low German Melk (“milk”), Yiddish מילך (milkh, “milk”), Danish mælk (“milk”), Faroese and Icelandic mjólk (“milk”), Norn *mjølk (“milk”), Norwegian Bokmål melk, mjølk (“milk”), Norwegian Nynorsk mjølk (“milk”), Swedish mjölk (“milk”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌺𐍃 (miluks, “milk”), Greek αμέλγω (amélgo, “to milk”), Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Latvian malks, Lithuanian malkas, Belarusian малако́ (malakó, “milk”), Bulgarian мля́ко (mljáko, “milk”), Czech mléko, Macedonian мле́ко (mléko, “milk”), Polish mleko (“milk”), Russian and Ukrainian молоко́ (molokó, “milk”), Serbo-Croatian mlijéko (“milk”), Slovak mlieko (“milk”), Slovene mlẹ́ko (“milk”), Welsh blith, Tocharian A malke.
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionmylkenm
- Inherited-form mentionmeolcang
- Inherited-form mention*melukgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*meluksgem-pro
- Derivation mention*h₂melǵ-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionmolkefy
- Cognate mentionmelknl
- Cognate mentionMilchde
- Cognate mentionמילךyi
- Cognate mentionmælkda
- Cognate mentionmjólkis
- Cognate mention*mjølknrn
- Cognate mentionmelknb
- Cognate mentionmjølknn
- Cognate mentionmjölksv
- Cognate mention𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌺𐍃got
- Cognate mentionαμέλγωel
- Cognate mentionmjelsq
- Cognate mentionmalkslv
- Cognate mentionmalkaslt
- Cognate mentionмалако́be
- Cognate mentionмля́коbg
- Cognate mentionmlékocs
- Cognate mentionмле́коmk
- Cognate mentionmlekopl
- Cognate mentionмолоко́uk
- Cognate mentionmlijékosh
- Cognate mentionmliekosk
- Cognate mentionmlẹ́kosl
- Cognate mentionblithcy
- Cognate mentionmalkexto
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