malke

From Old Norse mjolka, from Proto-Germanic *melukōną (“to milk, to give milk”), cognate with Norwegian mjölka, Swedish mjölka, English milk. Old Danish molkæ and Old Norse molka go back to a different form, *mulkōną. Germanic also had a strong verb, *melkaną (“to milk”), surviving in Dutch melken and German melken. All these words are derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“to milk”), which is also the source of Latin mulgeō, Ancient Greek ἀμέλγω (amélgō), and the Germanic words for "milk", cf. Danish mælk.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmalɡ̊ə]

malke (imperative malk, infinitive at malke, present tense malker, past tense malkede, perfect tense har malket)

1. to milk
2. (figuratively) to milk (for money)

• mælk

• malke on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

From Proto-Tocharian [Term?], ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-, whence also English milk. Compare Tocharian B malkwer.

malke m

1. milk

• Carling & Pinault (2023), page 332a: “malke”
• Poucha (1955), page 214: “malka”
• TEB, vol. 2, page 123: “malke”