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melk.

milk (nutritious liquid produced by a lactating mammalian mother)

4 characters1 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

Meaning & usage

noun/mɛlk/
  1. milk (nutritious liquid produced by a lactating mammalian mother)

    feminine · masculine
  2. A juice from plants that looks like milk.

    feminine · masculine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Danish mælk, from Old Norse mjolk, mjǫlk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-. Compare with Danish mælk, Swedish mjölk, Icelandic mjólk.

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