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Viktor Levickij
Germanische und slavische Bezeichnungen für ‘Milch’ und ‘melken’
SEC 17 (2012), 101–104

of volume 17

Abstract
Germanic and Slavonic words for ‘milk’ and ‘to milk’

A hypothesis has been proposed stating that the Germanic words with the meaning ‘milk’ and ‘to milk’ go back to IE root *mel- ‘to crush, to squash’, ‘to spread, to smear’. This root could have generated two semantic derivatives, namely, ‘to spill; wet, moist’ and ‘to rub, to stroke’ to which the meanings ‘milk’ and ‘to milk’ go back. The Germanic *mel-uk- ‘milk’ might be a compound word, the second component of which < IE *aeg-/ug- has the meaning ‘to increase, to add’.

BibTeX

@article{Levickij12,
	author	= {Levickij, Viktor},
	title	= {Germanische und slavische Bezeichnungen für ‘Milch’ und ‘melken’},
	journal	= {Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia},
	volume	= {17},
	year	= {2012},
	pages	= {101–104}
}