milk – English noun declension

English noun forms of milk

Noun: milk
Singularmilk
Pluralmilks

Sample Sentences

  • Skyr is a product made of curdled milk.
  • 2007 September 24, Chris Horseman (interviewee), Emily Harris (reporter), “Global Dairy Demand Drives Up Prices”, Morning Edition, National Public Radio
  • […] there's going to be that much less milk available to cover any other uses. Which means whether it's liquid milk or whether it's [milk that's been turned into] cheese or yogurt, the price gets pulled up right across the board.
  • In the West it's fairly normal to drink milk in various forms into adulthood. [2017, Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Experiment, →ISBN, page 75:]
  • Different milks have varying amounts of fats, proteins, and lactose, and arguments abound over the relative merits and possible harms of each. For many centuries, milk with a high fat content was considered to be the best, and low-fat or skimmed milk was considered fraudulent—in fact, selling it was often illegal. Cow breeds that produce milk with a high fat content, such as Ayrshires, Jerseys, and Guernseys, have always been valued, especially for cheesemaking. [2018, Mark Kurlansky, “Chapter 1: The First Taste of Sweetness”, in Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:]
  • Where it does fall down, however, is its nutritional value. While oats are largely a healthy grain to include in your diet, the milk is highly diluted with water, giving it little nutritional value. [2018 September 16, Alexandra Spring, “'Milk' mania: why most alternatives aren't great – but camel milk just might be”, in The Guardian:]
  • For environmentally minded consumers, the news is hard to swallow: almond milk is not healthy for the planet and the popular milk substitute is especially hard on bees. [2020 January 29, Annette McGivney, “Almonds are out. Dairy is a disaster. So what milk should we drink?”, in The Guardian:]
  • Table three ordered three milks.
  • I take my tea with two milks and two sugars.
  • I take my tea with two milk and two sugar.
  • She just sat there drinking cup after cup of strong coffee, with two milks and two sugars. [2014, Don Eggspuehler, Teachings From Pop, Author House, →ISBN, page 459:]
  • Five minutes later, he returned with Justin's large coffee with two milk and two sweeteners and a black coffee for himself. [2015, Carolyn Arnold, City of Gold: (Mathew Connor Adventure Series Book 1), Hibbert & Stiles Publishing Inc., →ISBN:]
  • Mrs. Dale huffed up to the counter and fired her battle-axe stare at the attendant. “One medium tea. ... Two double-doubles, and one with two milk and two sweeteners.” [2019, Maggie Blackbird, Redeemed: The Matawapit Family Series, #1, eXtasy Books, →ISBN, page 349:]
  • She placed on her desk a brown paper bag; it held her breakfast, cream cheese on a toasted bagel and coffee with two milks and one sugar. [2020, John Mitton, Tedmund and the Murdered Heiress, Page Publishing, Inc, →ISBN:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *meluks
4. Proto-West Germanic *meluk
5. Old English meolc
6. Middle English milk
7. English milk
8. From Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), from Proto-West Germanic *meluk (“milk”), from Proto-Germanic *meluks (“milk”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“milk, to milk”).
9. Cognates
10. Cognate with West Frisian molke (“milk”), Dutch melk (“milk”), Dutch Low Saxon melk (“milk”), German Milch (“milk”), German Low German Melk (“milk”), Yiddish מילך (milkh, “milk”), Danish mælk (“milk”), Faroese and Icelandic mjólk (“milk”), Norn *mjølk (“milk”), Norwegian Bokmål melk, mjølk (“milk”), Norwegian Nynorsk mjølk (“milk”), Swedish mjölk (“milk”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌺𐍃 (miluks, “milk”), Greek αμέλγω (amélgo, “to milk”), Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Latvian malks, Lithuanian malkas, Belarusian малако́ (malakó, “milk”), Bulgarian мля́ко (mljáko, “milk”), Czech mléko, Macedonian мле́ко (mléko, “milk”), Polish mleko (“milk”), Russian and Ukrainian молоко́ (molokó, “milk”), Serbo-Croatian mlijéko (“milk”), Slovak mlieko (“milk”), Slovene mlẹ́ko (“milk”), Welsh blith, Tocharian A malke. See: Middle English Nouns 'milk', Old English Nouns 'meolc', Dutch Nouns 'melk', German Nouns 'Milch', Icelandic Nouns 'mjólk', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'melk', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'mjølk', Swedish Nouns 'mjölk', Gothic Nouns '𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌺𐍃', Bulgarian Nouns 'мля́ко', Czech Nouns 'mléko', Polish Nouns 'mleko', Slovak Nouns 'mlieko'.

Verbs referencing "milk"

Swedish Nouns mjölk, Faroese Nouns mjólk, Icelandic Nouns mjólk, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns mjølk, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns mjølk, Irish Nouns bleacht, Latin Nouns melca, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns mjåkk.