Meaning

noun a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings

noun produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young

noun a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River

originFrom 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,…

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