melken

From Middle Dutch melken, from Old Dutch *melkan, from Proto-West Germanic *melkan, from Proto-Germanic *melkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛlkə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: mel‧ken
• Rhymes: -ɛlkən

melken

1. (transitive) to milk a (farm) animal
2. (intransitive) to play meekly, without risk, notably in duel ball sports like tennis

• melk

• Afrikaans: melk
• Jersey Dutch: määlke

• “melken” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

From Middle High German mëlken, from Old High German melchan, from Proto-West Germanic *melkan, from Proto-Germanic *melkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.

The consonantism -lk- is regular High German. The difference between melken and Milch is due to the fact that the latter used to have a short vowel after -l- (Old High German miluh). Compare Dutch melken, English milk, Danish malke, Norwegian mjølke.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛlkən/, [ˈmɛlkən], [ˈmɛlkŋ̩]

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• Hyphenation: mel‧ken

melken (class 3 strong or weak, third-person singular present milkt or melkt, past tense molk or melkte, past participle gemolken or (rare) gemelkt, past subjunctive mölke or melkte, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to milk (a cow, goat etc.)
2. (transitive, figuratively) to drain; to draw from (someone or something), especially without consent; to milk (someone) for money, information, etc.

• Melken has full sets of both strong and weak forms, both being accepted as standard. The past participle gemolken is considerably more common than gemelkt. Otherwise there is possibly a tendency to prefer the strong forms in the northern half of the German Sprachraum and the weak forms in the southern half.

• Melker, Melkerei, Melkung

• Melken
• abmelken, durchmelken
• Dauermelken, Mäusemelken, Weitermelken
• Melkeimer, Melkkuh, Melkmaschine, Melkschemel

• → Esperanto: melki
  • Ido: melkar

• Milch, Molkerei

• “melken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “melken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “melken” in Duden online
• “melken” in OpenThesaurus.de

melken

1. inflection of melk:
   1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
   2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
   3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
   4. strong dative plural
   5. weak/mixed all-case plural

From Old Dutch *melkan, from Proto-West Germanic *melkan, from Proto-Germanic *melkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.

melken

1. To milk.
2. To draw in, to pull.
3. To lure.

• Dutch: melken
• Limburgish: mèlke

• “melken”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “melken”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• melka

melken m or f

1. definite masculine singular of melk