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.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *meluks.

Noun

*meluk f

milk

Inflection

Consonant stem
	Singular
Nominative	*meluk
Genitive	*meluki
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*meluk	*meluki
Accusative	*meluku	*meluki
Genitive	*meluki	*melukō
Dative	*meluki	*melukum
Instrumental	*meluki	*melukum

Derived terms

*melukōn

Descendants

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 (all descendants are merged with molken < *mulknō)
- 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)