Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/melkaną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.
Pronunciation
Verb
- to milk (get milk from an animal)
Inflection
Conjugation of *melkaną (strong class 3)
Related terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Old English: meolcan(Please either change this template to {{desc}} or insert a ====Descendants==== section in meolcan#Old English)
- Old Frisian: melka
- Old Saxon: *melkan
- Old Dutch: *melkan
- Old High German: melkan, melchan
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*mel(u)kan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 364-365
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*melkanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 266-267