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, from Proto-West Germanic *melk, from Proto-Germanic *melkaz, 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