Noun: meolc
Gender: f
Nominative
| Singular | meolc |
| Plural | meolce; meolca |
Genitive
| Singular | meolce |
| Plural | meolca |
Dative
| Singular | meolce |
| Plural | meolcum |
Accusative
| Singular | meolc; meolce |
| Plural | meolce; meolca |
Sample Sentences
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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An. DLXXXV Hēr wearþ on Brytene blōdi rēn ⁊ meolc and butere wurdon ġewend to blōde. (Year 685 In this year there was bloody rain in Britain and milk and butter were turned into blood.)
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Wonders of the East
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Hī habbað miċle hēafda ⁊ ēaran swā fann. Ōþer ēare hī him on niht underbredað, ⁊ mid ōðran hȳ wrēoð him. Beoð þa ēaran swīðe lēohte ⁊ him beoð ān līchoman swā hwīte swā meolc. ⁊ ġif hī hwylcne mann on þām landum ġesēoð oþðe onġytað, þonne nimað hī heora ēaran on hand ⁊ feorriað hī ⁊ flēoð, swā hrǣdlīċe swā is wēn þætte hī flēogen. (They have great heads and ears like fans. They spread one ear under themselves at night, and cover themselves in the other. The ears are very light and their bodies are as white as milk. And if they see or perceive anyone in those lands, they take their ears in their hands and go far and flee, so quickly one might think that they flew.)
Nouns inflected like meolc
hyllwyrt,
smeoruwyrt,
samwist,
clæferwyrt,
dopenid,
gumcyst,
hæselwyrt,
cyninges wyrt,
eagwyrt,
wealhwyrt,
efesung,
œfest,
æx,
dryht,
drift,
efest,
feord,
fierd,
meolc,
meluc, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *meluk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-. See there for cognates.
Verbs referencing "meolc"
English Nouns
milk, Middle English Nouns
milk, Old Norse Nouns
mjǫlk.
Translations