TY - JOUR
TI - Germanische und slavische Bezeichnungen für ‘Milch’ und ‘melken’
AU - Levickij, Viktor
TI - Germanische und slavische Bezeichnungen für ‘Milch’ und ‘melken’
AB - 
	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’.
	 
VL - 2012
IS - Volume 17, Issue 2
PY - 2012
SN - 1427-8219
C1 - 2084-3836
SP - 101
EP - 104
DO - 10.4467/20843836SE.12.005.0395
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-etymologica-cracoviensia/article/germanische-und-slavische-bezeichnungen-fur-milch-und-melken
KW - etymology
KW - diachrony
KW - language contact
KW - areal linguistics
KW - linguistic history