- live in dairy-farming households. The term milk
comes from "Old
English meoluc (West Saxon), milc (Anglian), from Proto-Germanic *meluks "milk" (source...
- name
means "outlying
dairy farm", the
first element being the Old
English '
meoluc'
meaning 'milk', and the
second element the Old
English 'beretun' meaning...
-
follows in the next syllable.
Hence seofon "seven" < PG *sebun, mioluc,
meoluc "milk" < PG *meluks.
Palatal umlaut:
Short e, eo, io
become i (occasionally...
-
German ebur)
heorot "hart" < *herutaz (cf. Old High
German hiruz) mioluc,
meoluc "milk" < *melukz (cf.
Gothic miluks) liofast,
leofast "you (sg.) live" <...
- Se wífman, se ne mæge
bearn áfédan, nime þonne ánes bléos cú
meoluc on hyre handæ and gesúpe þonne mid hyre múþe and
gange þonne tó
yrnendum wætere and...
