Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/h₂melǵ-

This entry contains Proto-Indo-European reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Indo-European

Root

*(h₂)melǵ-

1. to milk
2. milk

Descendants

• Albanian: mjel "to milk"
• Baltic:
  • Latvian: malks "sip, nip, swig"
  • Lithuanian: melžti "to milk", malkas
• Celtic:
  • Middle Irish: bligim "I milk"
  • Irish: melg "milk"
  • *mliktu (< *ml̥ǵtu)
    • Old Irish: blicht < mlicht
      • Irish: bleacht "milk yield"
    • Welsh: blith "milch"
• Germanic: *melkaną (“to milk”), *meluks (“milk”)
  • Proto-Slavic: *melko (borrowed)
• Hellenic:
  • Ancient Greek: ἀμέλγω (amelgō) "I milk", possibly also μέλκιον (melkion)
    • Greek: αρμέγω (armégo)
• Indo-Iranian:
  • Indo-Aryan:
    • Sanskrit: मर्जति (marjati) "wipes, cleans"
  • Iranian:
    • Avestan: marǝzaiti "grazes, touches"
• Italic:
  • Latin: mulgeō "I milk"
    • Aromanian: mulgu
    • Catalan: munyir
    • Friulian: molgi
    • Galician: muxir
    • Italian: mungere
    • Romanian: mulge
    • Romansch: mulscher
    • Occitan: mólzer
    • Portuguese: mungir
    • Sardinian: múgghere
    • Spanish: mecer
• Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonc:
    • Russian Church Slavonic: mlěsti "to milk"
  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: малодзіва (malódziva) "colostrum"
    • Russian: молозиво (molózivo) "colostrum"
    • Ukrainian: молозиво (molózyvo) "colostrum"
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: mlezivo "colostrum"
    • Polish: młodziwo, mleziwo "colostrum"
    • Slovak: mledzivo "colostrum"
• Tocharian:
  • Tocharian A: malke "milk", mālk- "to milk" (< *h₂melǵ-ei̯e)
  • Tocharian B: malkwer "milk", mālkant "to milk"