Germanische und slavische Bezeichnungen für ‘Milch’ und ‘melken’

• Authors: Viktor Levickij

Title variants

EN

The Germanic and Slavonic words for ‘milk’ and ‘to milk’

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

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’.

Keywords

EN

Germanic; Slavonic words; linguistic history

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 101-104

Dates

online

2012-05-23

Contributors

author

Viktor Levickij

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/20843836SE.12.005.0395