malke

Danish

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmalɡ̊ə]

Verb

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)

Conjugation

Conjugation of malke

	Active	Passive
Infinitive	malke	malkes
Present tense	malker	malkes
Past tense	malkede	malkedes
Imperative	malk	-
Participle
Present	malkende
Past	malket
Gerund	malken

Related terms

• mælk

See also

• malke on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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Tocharian A

Etymology

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

Noun

malke

1. milk

Related terms

• mālk-