melcan

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *melkan, from Proto-Germanic *melkaną. Related to Old Frisian melka, Old Saxon *melkan, Old Dutch *melkan, Old High German melkan. Note that this is the original form, as *e and *i before *l did not break unless *h followed[1]: thus the alternative form meolcan has its diphthong by analogy with the noun meolc, which has its diphthong from back umlaut.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmel.kɑn/, [ˈmeɫ.kɑn]

Verb

melcan

  1. to milk

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Middle English: mylken, milke, melke, mulke
    • English: milk
    • Yola: mulke

References

  1. Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 186
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