melc

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch miluk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.

Noun

melc f or n

1. milk

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: melk
  • Afrikaans: melk
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: meleke
  • Jersey Dutch: määlk
  • Negerhollands: melk
  • → Aukan: meliki
  • → Caribbean Javanese: mèleg, mèrki
  • → Munsee: mălák
  • → Saramaccan: meíki
  • → Sranan Tongo: merki
    • → Kari'na: meliki
  • → Tok Pisin: melek
• Limburgish: mèlk

Further reading

• “melc (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “melc (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

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Romanian

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Dacian, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“soft, weak, tender”). Compare Breton melc’hwed (“snails”), Welsh malwod (“snails”), Latin mollis (“soft”), Old Armenian մեղկ (mełk, “soft, weak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /melk/

Noun

melc m (plural melci)

1. snail

Declension

Declension of melc

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) melc	melcul	(niște) melci	melcii
genitive/dative	(unui) melc	melcului	(unor) melci	melcilor
vocative	melcule		melcilor