melken

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch melken, from Old Dutch *melkan, from Proto-West Germanic *melkan, from Proto-Germanic *melkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛlkə(n)/
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  • Hyphenation: mel‧ken
  • Rhymes: -ɛlkən

Verb

melken

  1. (transitive) To milk a (farm) animal.
  2. (intransitive) To play meekly, without risk, notably in duel ball sports like tennis.

Inflection

Conjugation of melken (strong class 3b)
infinitive melken
past singular molk
past participle gemolken
infinitive melken
gerund melken n
present tense past tense
1st person singular melkmolk
2nd person sing. (jij) melktmolk
2nd person sing. (u) melktmolk
2nd person sing. (gij) melktmolkt
3rd person singular melktmolk
plural melkenmolken
subjunctive sing.1 melkemolke
subjunctive plur.1 melkenmolken
imperative sing. melk
imperative plur.1 melkt
participles melkendgemolken
1) Archaic.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: melk
  • Jersey Dutch: määlke

Further reading

  • melken” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

German

Etymology 1

From Middle High German mëlken, from Old High German melchan, from Proto-West Germanic *melkan, from Proto-Germanic *melkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.

The consonantism -lk- is regular High German. The difference between melken and Milch is due to the fact that the latter used to have a short vowel after -l- (Old High German miluh). Compare Dutch melken, English milk, Danish malke, Norwegian mjølke.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛlkən/, [ˈmɛlkən], [ˈmɛlkŋ̩]
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  • Hyphenation: mel‧ken

Verb

melken (class 3 strong or weak, third-person singular present milkt or melkt, past tense molk or melkte, past participle gemolken or (rare) gemelkt, past subjunctive mölke or melkte, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to milk (a cow, goat etc.)
  2. (transitive, figuratively) to drain; to draw from (someone or something), especially without consent; to milk (someone) for money, information, etc.
Usage notes
  • Melken has full sets of both strong and weak forms, both being accepted as standard. The past participle gemolken is considerably more common than gemelkt. Otherwise there is possibly a tendency to prefer the strong forms in the northern half of the German Sprachraum and the weak forms in the southern half.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
See also

Further reading

  • melken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • melken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • melken” in Duden online
  • melken” in OpenThesaurus.de

Adjective

melken

  1. inflection of melk:
    1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
    2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
    3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
    4. strong dative plural
    5. weak/mixed all-case plural

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *melkan, from Proto-West Germanic *melkan, from Proto-Germanic *melkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.

Verb

melken

  1. To milk.
  2. To draw in, to pull.
  3. To lure.

Inflection

Strong class 3
Infinitive melken
3rd sg. past malc
3rd pl. past molken
Past participle gemolken
Infinitive melken
In genitive melkens
In dative melkene
Indicative Present Past
1st singular melke malc
2nd singular melcs, melkes molcs, molkes
3rd singular melct, melket malc
1st plural melken molken
2nd plural melct, melket molct, molket
3rd plural melken molken
Subjunctive Present Past
1st singular melke molke
2nd singular melcs, melkes molkes
3rd singular melke molke
1st plural melken molken
2nd plural melct, melket molket
3rd plural melken molken
Imperative Present
Singular melc, melke
Plural melct, melket
Present Past
Participle melkende gemolken

Descendants

  • Dutch: melken
  • Limburgish: mèlke

Further reading

  • melken”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “melken”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

melken m or f

  1. definite masculine singular of melk
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