%0 Journal Article
%T Germanische und slavische Bezeichnungen für ‘Milch’ und ‘melken’
%A Levickij, Viktor
%J Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia
%V 2012
%R 10.4467/20843836SE.12.005.0395
%N Volume 17, Issue 2
%P 101-104
%K etymology, diachrony, language contact, areal linguistics, linguistic history
%@ 1427-8219
%D 2012
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-etymologica-cracoviensia/article/germanische-und-slavische-bezeichnungen-fur-milch-und-melken
%X 
	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’.