mulk

From Latvian muļķis, muļķe (“idiot, fool”). Originally, the word only existed in the Mulgi dialect, with the meaning of "fool", but later spread to other dialects and became an exonym.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmulʲk/

mulk (genitive mulgi, partitive mulki)

1. a person from Mulgimaa (a traditional region in Southern Estonia, located south of the city of Viljandi)

Borrowed from Arabic مُلْك (mulk).

mulk (plural mulklar)

1. property, belongings

From Middle English mulke, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), from Proto-West Germanic *meluk.

• IPA^(key): /mʊɫk/

mulk

1. milk
   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 96:

     To our pleoughès an mulk-pylès till a neeshte holy die.

     To our ploughs and our milk-pails till the next holiday.

• mulk-pylès

• mulke (“to milk”)

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 96