where did the word milk come from?

Question

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Answer 1

"Milk" is part of the vocabulary of English that has been inherited from Proto-Indo-European 6000 years ago. The Proto-Indo-European word was *melg- and meant 'milk' (the "stroking" meaning is probably not correct, there is no need to invoke a verbal meaning for this). There are good cognates in ALL the Indo-European languages for this root. Ultimately, at a time lost in the mists of time and irrecoverable scientifically, the word is onomatopoeic for the sounds made by a child sucking at its mother's breast.

Answer 2

The word "milk" in English has its roots in an Indo-European word "melg,” which meant "wiping or stroking.” This was the method of getting the liquid from an animal’s udders. The verb then got its meaning transferred to the substance it produces. This is how we still use the term... we get our "milk" from "milking" a cow. The "melg" got passed into the Germanic languages as "melk,” which became the base "meluks.” This led to most of the modern Germanic words: Dutch (melk), German (Milch), Yiddish (milkh), and Faroese (mjólk).The root "melg" seems to have also been picked up in the Old Teutonic, which is often the root for the Slavic words: Polish (mleko), Russian (молоко), Croatian (mlijeko), and Kashubian (mlékò).

Answer 3

It comes from the AngloSaxon word 'meluk' which describes the hand motion of milking an animal.

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Answer 4

It properly derived from the word 'mother'…If you look at the words 'milk and mother' in all the different languages that all look and sound pretty much alike.

Answer 5

it was discovered when ancient people hear the sound of a white liquid coming from a woman's breast.and it sounds,"ilk!ilk!ilk!"they thought that's the name for it and by adding "m",it may now sound classy.that's the story of milk.

Answer 6

There are many choices and explanations..... Here's a definition of a "milk" as a verb

TRANSITIVE VERB: 1a. To draw milk from the teat or udder of (a female mammal). b. To draw or extract a liquid from: milked the stem for its last drops of sap. 2. To press out, drain off, or remove by or as if by milking: milk venom from a snake. 3. Informal a. To draw out or extract something from, as if by milking: milked the witness for information. b. To obtain money or benefits from, in order to achieve personal gain; exploit: “The dictator and his cronies had milked their country of somewhere between $5 billion and $10 billion” (Russell Watson).
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, from Old English milc
Then I looked up "milc"
ENTRY: melg-
DEFINITION: To rub off; also to milk. Oldest form *mel-, becoming *melg- in centum languages.
I. 1. Zero-grade form *mg-. emulsion, from Latin mulgre, to milk. 2. Full-grade form *melg-. a. milk, from Old English meolc, milc; b. milch, from Old English -milce, milch, from Germanic suffixed form *meluk-ja-, giving milk; c. milchig, from Old High German miluh, milk. a–c all from Germanic *melkan, to milk, contaminated with an unrelated noun for milk, cognate with the Greek and Latin forms given in II below, to form the blend *meluk-.
II. Included here to mark the unexplained fact that no common Indo-European noun for milk can be reconstructed is another root *g(a)lag-, *g(a)lakt-, milk, found only in: a. galactic, galacto-, galaxy; agalactia, polygala, from Greek gala (stem galakt-), milk; b. lactate, lacteal, lactescent, lacto-, latte, lettuce, from Latin lac, milk; c. the blended Germanic form cited in I. 2. above. (Pokorny ml- 722, glag- 400.)

Answer 7

The cow..

Answer 8

it was uttered

Answer 9

german - Milch

Answer 10

the cow..........