Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/meluk

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

From Proto-Germanic *meluks.

*meluk f

1. milk

• *melukōn

• Old English: meolc, meoloc, meoluc, milc
  • Middle English: milk, milke, milc, melke, melc (chiefly Kent & Southern West), mulk, mulc (chiefly Southern & Southern West)
    • English: milk
    • Scots: milk, melk, mylk
    • Yola: mulk
• Old Frisian: melok
  • North Frisian: molke
  • Saterland Frisian: Moalk, Molk
  • West Frisian: molke
• Old Saxon: miluk
  • Middle Low German: melik, melk
    • Dutch Low Saxon: melk
    • German Low German: Melk

      Plautdietsch: Malkj

• Old Dutch: miluc
  • Middle Dutch: melc
    • 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
• Old High German: miluh
  • Middle High German: milich, milch
    • Alemannic German: Möuch, Melch

      Swabian: Milk

      Walser: milch, meljch, mélläch

    • Bavarian: Muich, Milli, milch, milach, milich

      Cimbrian: milch, milach

      Hianzisch: Müli

      Mòcheno: milch

    • Central Franconian:

      Hunsrik: Millich

      Luxembourgish: Mëllech

    • German: Milch
      • → Tok Pisin: milis
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Pennsylvania German: Millich

    • Vilamovian: myłich
    • Yiddish: מילך (milkh)