miolk

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

  • miølk

Etymology

From Old Norse mjǫlk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-. Cognate with Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌺𐍃 (miluks), Faroese mjólk, Icelandic mjólk, Norwegian Bokmål melk, mjølk, Norwegian Nynorsk mjølk, Danish mælk, English milk, Dutch melk, Dutch Low Saxon melk, German Milch, German Low German Melk, Yiddish מילך (milkh).

Noun

miolk f

  1. milk

Descendants

  • Swedish: mjölk
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