melg

Old Irish edit

From Proto-Celtic *melgos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“milk”).^[1] See also the related verb mligid.

melg n (genitive milge)

(rare) milk
- c. 810, Florence Glosses on Philargyrus, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 48, 20^b
  bo-milge
  of cow-milk (glosses Latin sinum lactis .i. genus vasis)
Synonym: lacht

This term was already falling out of use in the Old Irish period, being only attested in explanatory glosses.

Neuter s-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	melg^N	—	—
Vocative	melg^N	—	—
Accusative	melg^N	—	—
Genitive	milge^L	—	—
Dative	milg^L	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
melg also mmelg after a proclitic	melg pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*melgos-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 263