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 present malker malkes past malkede malkedes infinitive malke malkes imperative malk — participle present malkende past malket (auxiliary verb have) gerund malken

Related terms

• mælk

See also

• malke on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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-