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melk.

milk (nutritious liquid produced by a lactating mammalian mother)

4 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/mɛlk/[mɛɫk][ˈmɛ.lək]
  1. milk (nutritious liquid produced by a lactating mammalian mother)

    feminine · uncountable
  2. milk (nutritious liquid derived from vegetable sources, sometimes as a deliberate substitute of mammalian milk)

    feminine · uncountable
  3. various 'milky' juices (that resembles or looks like milk), as secreted by certain plants and insects

    feminine · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle Dutch melc, from Old Dutch miloc, from Proto-West Germanic *meluk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.

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