Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/melukōną

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms 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-Germanic edit

Etymology edit

From *meluks (“milk”) +‎ *-ōną.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈme.lu.kɔː.nɑ̃/

Verb edit

*melukōną

To milk
To give milk

Inflection edit

Conjugation of *melukōną (weak class 2)

present tense	indicative	subjunctive	imperative	indicative	subjunctive
	active voice			passive voice
1st singular	*melukō	*melukǭ	—	*melukōi	?
2nd singular	*melukōsi	*melukōs	*melukō	*melukōsai	*melukōsau
3rd singular	*melukōþi	*melukō	*melukōþau	*melukōþai	*melukōþau
1st dual	*melukōs	*melukōw	—	—	—
2nd dual	*melukōþiz	*melukōþiz	*melukōþiz	—	—
1st plural	*melukōmaz	*melukōm	—	*melukōnþai	*melukōnþau
2nd plural	*melukōþ	*melukōþ	*melukōþ	*melukōnþai	*melukōnþau
3rd plural	*melukōnþi	*melukōn	*melukōnþau	*melukōnþai	*melukōnþau

past tense	indicative	subjunctive
1st singular	*melukōdǭ	*melukōdēdį̄
2nd singular	*melukōdēz	*melukōdēdīz
3rd singular	*melukōdē	*melukōdēdī
1st dual	*melukōdēdū	*melukōdēdīw
2nd dual	*melukōdēdudiz	*melukōdēdīdiz
1st plural	*melukōdēdum	*melukōdēdīm
2nd plural	*melukōdēdud	*melukōdēdīd
3rd plural	*melukōdēdun	*melukōdēdīn

	present	past
participles	*melukōndz	*melukōdaz

Related terms edit

*melkaną

Descendants edit

*melukōn
- Old English: meolcian, milcian
  - Middle English: melken, milken
    - Scots: melk, mylk, milk
    - English: milk
- Old Frisian: *melokja, *melkia
  - West Frisian: melkje, meltsje
- Old Saxon: *melkōn
  - Middle Low German: melken
    - Low German: melken
Old Norse: mjǫlka, molka, mjólka
- Icelandic: mjólka
- Faroese: mjólka
- Norwegian: mjølka; (dialectal) mjelka, mjolke
  - → Norwegian Bokmål: mjølke, mjelke
- Old Swedish: miolka, molka
  - Swedish: mjölka
- Old Danish: maalke, molke, mælke
  - Danish: malke, mælke
    - Norwegian Bokmål: melke