meolc

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *meluk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-. See there for cognates.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /me͜olk/, [me͜oɫk]

Noun

meolc f

  1. milk
    • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
      An. DLXXXV Hēr wearþ on Brytene blōdi rēn ⁊ meolc and butere wurdon ġewend to blōde.
      Year 685 In this year there was bloody rain in Britain and milk and butter were turned into blood.

Declension

Strong i-stem:

singular plural
nominative meolc meolce, meolca
accusative meolc, meolce meolce, meolca
genitive meolce meolca
dative meolce meolcum

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle English: milk, milke, milc, melke, melc (chiefly Kent and southwest Midlands), mulk, mulc (chiefly Southern and southwest Midlands)
    • English: milk
    • English: (Ottawa-Valley) melk
    • Scots: milk, melk, mylk
    • Yola: mulk
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