Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/melko

Etymology

 * Borrowed from either or, from  with unexpected 'u' (cp. ).
 * Related to:, , and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,  : , 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.
 * (+) Proto-Indo-European palatovelar */ǵ/ is reflexed as centum and voiceless (inherited form would be or ). See also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.
 * (∓) u > ъ is expected (per ESSJa:, ). This would require an intermediary language that would drop the medial from Proto-Germanic word and thematicize the stem. But compare  :.
 * (–) Neuter gender of the Slavic word: loanwords rarely become neuter when they are borrowed into Proto-Slavic, and neuter donor words mainly become masculine or feminine.
 * (–) per Oleg Trubačev: it belongs to the accent paradigm b. However, this argument is weak since the final stress goes back to earlier stem stress, which is not unlikely among the Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic.
 * Per A. Brückner, Valentin Kiparsky: from  or.
 * Related to 1:, (> Serbo-Croatian /, Old East Slavic  and 🇨🇬, ) and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,.
 * Related to 2: 🇨🇬
 * Related to 1/2: 🇨🇬, possibly 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬
 * This etymology has been criticized as semantically far-fetched.
 * This etymology has been criticized as semantically far-fetched.

Compare milk names:
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 * (< ) : . See also,.
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Noun

 * 1)  milk

Descendants

 * East Slavic:
 * South Slavic:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Glagolitic:
 * Latin:, ,
 * West Slavic:
 * Bohemian :
 * Pomeranian:
 * Sorbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Glagolitic:
 * Latin:, ,
 * West Slavic:
 * Bohemian :
 * Pomeranian:
 * Sorbian:
 * West Slavic:
 * Bohemian :
 * Pomeranian:
 * Sorbian:
 * Bohemian :
 * Pomeranian:
 * Sorbian:
 * Pomeranian:
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 * Pomeranian:
 * Sorbian:
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