milt

Meanings

Noun

• The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
• The semen of a male fish.

Verb

• To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

Related

Similar words

• spleen; lien
• soft roe, white roe

Origin

• From Middle English milte, from Old English milte, milt, from Proto-West Germanic *miltijā, *meltā, from Proto-Germanic *meltǭ ("spleen"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- ("to beat, grind, crush, weaken"). Cognate with German Milz, Dutch milt, Danish milt, Norwegian milt, Swedish mjälte. Outside Germanic, with Albanian mëlçi.