Milch

From Middle High German milch, from Old High German miluh, from Proto-West Germanic *meluk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.

• IPA^(key): /mɪlç/

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Milch f (genitive Milch, plural Milchen or Milche)

1. milk (white liquid produced by female mammals for their young to consume)
2. milk (white or whitish liquid that is exuded by certain plants)
3. white liquid that is a mixture of other substances, where one of the components is very finely distributed
4. white semen of a male fish

   Synonym: Fischmilch

• → Tok Pisin: milis

• melken

• “Milch”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Milch” in Duden online
• “Milch” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Milch”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891