melk

• IPA^(key): /mɛlk/, [mɛɫk]

Inherited from Dutch melk, from Middle Dutch melc, from Old Dutch miluk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.

melk (uncountable)

1. milk

Inherited from Dutch melken, from Middle Dutch melken, from Old Dutch *melkan, from Proto-Germanic *melkaną.

melk (present melk, present participle melkende, past participle gemelk)

1. to milk

• IPA^(key): /mɛlk/, [mɛɫk], [ˈmɛ.lək]

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• Hyphenation: melk
• Rhymes: -ɛlk

Inherited from Middle Dutch melc, from Old Dutch miluk, from Proto-West Germanic *meluk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.

melk f (uncountable, diminutive melkje n)

1. milk (nutritious liquid produced by a lactating mammalian mother)
2. milk (nutritious liquid derived from vegetable sources, sometimes as a deliberate substitute of mammalian milk)
3. (botany) various 'milky' juices (that resembles or looks like milk), as secreted by certain plants and insects

• Afrikaans: melk
• Berbice Creole Dutch: meleke
• Jersey Dutch: määlk
• Negerhollands: melk
• → Aukan: meliki
• → Caribbean Javanese: mèleg, mèrki
• → Munsee: mălák
• → Saramaccan: meíki
• → Sranan Tongo: merki
  • → Kari'na: meliki
• → Tok Pisin: melek

• zuivel

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

melk

1. inflection of melken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• “melk” in Van Dale Onlinewoordenboek, Van Dale Lexicografie, 2007.
• “melk” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

• klem

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛlk/

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• Hyphenation: melk
• Homophone: Melk

From Middle High German melk, from Old High German melch, ultimately from the root of Milch. Compare Old English þrimilce.

melk (strong nominative masculine singular melker, not comparable)

1. (of a cow, goat, etc.) milch (giving milk)

   Antonym: (Upper German) galt

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

melk

1. singular imperative of melken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of melken

• “melk” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “melk” in Duden online
• “melk” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

• mjølk

Inherited from Danish mælk, from Old Norse mjolk, mjǫlk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-. Compare with Danish mælk, Swedish mjölk, Icelandic mjólk.

• IPA^(key): /mɛlk/
• Rhymes: -ɛlk

melk f or m (definite singular melka or melken, indefinite plural melker, definite plural melkene)

1. milk (nutritious liquid produced by a lactating mammalian mother)
2. (botany) A juice from plants that looks like milk.

• mjølk (Nynorsk)

melk

1. imperative of melke

• “melk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

melk

1. Alternative form of mulke

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 57