melken.
to milk (a cow, goat etc.)
Meaning & usage
to milk (a cow, goat etc.)
to drain; to draw from (someone or something), especially without consent; to milk (someone) for money, information, etc.
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German mëlken, from Old High German melchan, from Proto-West Germanic *melkan, from Proto-Germanic *melkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-. The consonantism -lk- is regular High German. The difference between melken and Milch is due to the fact that the latter used to have a short vowel after -l- (Old High German miluh). Compare Dutch melken, English milk, Danish malke, Norwegian mjølke.
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