milch

Meaning

Adjective

• Used to produce milk; dairy.
• Currently producing milk for its offspring.
• Tender; pitiful; weeping.

Origin

• From Middle English milche, melche, from Old English *melċe, *milċe (attested in þrimilċe, þrimelċes mōnaþ), from Proto-Germanic *milkijaz, from Proto-Germanic *melkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian meelk ("milch"), Low German melke ("milch"), German melk ("milk-giving, milch"), Alemannic German mëlch ("milch, milkable"), Icelandic milkur, mjólkur. More at milk.