Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/meluks
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Burgundaz in topic Etymology speculation
Gothic miluks.--Manfariel (talk) 18:08, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Strange, it was originally there but seems to have been removed in diff. @Julia was there a particular reason for removing it or just a slip of the keys? —Rua (mew) 18:23, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Rua: Yeah I think I deleted it by accident when cleaning up the Old Norse descendants. Thanks @Manfariel for noticing it’s missing. Julia ☺ ☆ 00:11, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
Etymology speculation
[edit]Was thinking about this the other night and I thought that the two words with which this word would most be associated with would be *fehu, "cattle", and *felu, "much, a lot". This leads me to posit a contamination of *meluks in a phrase like *felu melks > *felu meluks or a in a phrase like "much cattle and milk". Obviously just speculation but it seemed an interesting thought to share. Burgundaz (talk) 01:13, 23 October 2020 (UTC)