Melk

Melk

1. A city in Austria, in the federal state of Lower Austria, known as the site of a massive baroque Benedictine monastery.

• Kelm, Klem

First mentioned in 831 as Medilica, said to be of Slavic origin and meaning "border" (compare Proto-Slavic *meďa (“boundary, border”)).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /mɛlk/

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• Homophone: melk

Melk n (proper noun, genitive Melks or (optionally with an article) Melk)

1. a municipality of Lower Austria, Austria

die Melk f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Melk)

1. a river in Lower Austria, Austria

From Middle Low German melik, from Old Saxon miluk, from Proto-West Germanic *meluk.

Cognate to English milk (which has a larger etymology section), Dutch Low Saxon melk, Dutch melk, Norwegian Bokmål melk, mjølk, German Milch.

Melk

1. (in some dialects, including Low Prussian) milk