Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food. · The semen of a male fish. · The engorged testis containing a filled reservoir of mature spermatozoa in a male fish.
To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.
From Middle English milte, from Old English milte, milt (“milt, spleen”), from Proto-West Germanic *miltijā, *meltā, from Proto-Germanic *meltǭ (“spleen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”). Cognate with German Milz, Dutch milt, Danish milt, Norwegian milt, Swedish mjälte. Outside Germanic, with Albanian mëlçi (“liver”) and Italian milza (“spleen”), which is a borrowing from Lombardic.
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- Root classification mention*(s)meld-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionmilteenm
- Inherited-form mentionmilteang
- Inherited-form mention*miltijāgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*meltǭgem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*(s)meld-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionMilzde
- Cognate mentionmiltnl
- Cognate mentionmiltda
- Cognate mentionmiltno
- Cognate mentionmjältesv
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