@article{d8ef18a2-a4d4-4565-9708-02beb218f869,
author = {Viktor Levickij},
title = {Germanische und slavische Bezeichnungen für ‘Milch’ und ‘melken’},
journal = {Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia},
volume = {2012},
number = {Volume 17, Issue 2},
year = {2012},
issn = {1427-8219},
pages = {101-104},keywords = {etymology; diachrony; language contact; areal linguistics; linguistic history},
abstract = {The 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 o which *au eg-/ug- has the meaning ‘to increase, to add’.
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doi = {10.4467/20843836SE.12.005.0395},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-etymologica-cracoviensia/article/germanische-und-slavische-bezeichnungen-fur-milch-und-melken}
}