Old English · noun
meolc
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
- Declension
- strong i-stem
- IPA
- /me͜olk/[me͜oɫk]
- Syllables
- me͜olk (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- milkmelk
Meaning
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milk
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.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *meluk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-. See there for cognates.
Descendants
melk, milk
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