milk

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The white liquid produced by cows and other female mammals, drunk by people or used in food.

   She poured some milk into her coffee.

2. 2
   noun

   A white liquid made from plants such as almonds, oats, coconuts, or soy.

   He uses oat milk instead of dairy milk in his cereal.

3. 3
   verb

   To take milk from a cow or other animal.

   The farmer milks his cows early every morning.

4. 4
   verb

   To get as much money or advantage from something as possible.

   The company milked the popular film series for years.

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Simplified etymology

Milk is an Old English word from an ancient root that may have meant “rub,” perhaps referring to drawing milk by hand from an animal’s teats. It is related to Latin mulgere, “to milk,” which also lies behind emulsion.

From Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), from Proto-West Germanic *meluk (“milk”), from Proto-Germanic *meluks (“milk”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“milk, to milk”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian molke (“milk”), Dutch melk (“milk”), Dutch Low Saxon melk (“milk”), German Milch (“milk”), German Low German Melk (“milk”), Yiddish מילך (milkh, “milk”), Danish mælk (“milk”), Faroese and Icelandic mjólk (“milk”), Norn *mjølk (“milk”), Norwegian Bokmål melk, mjølk (“milk”), Norwegian Nynorsk mjølk (“milk”), Swedish mjölk (“milk”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌺𐍃…

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