Milk

Morpheme

Milk

Type

free base

Denotation

nourishing white liquid secreted by female mammals

Etymology

Middle English milk, mylk, melk, milken; Old English meolc, meoluc, melcan, milcian, meolcian

Evidence

antimilk, buttermilk, foremilk, hindmilk, milk, milkable, milkaholic, milkbag, milkbox, milkbush, milked, milker, milking, milkish, milkless, milklike, milkmaid, milkman, milko, milkpox, milks, milkshake, milksop, milkstache, milkstain, milkstone, milktoast, milkweed, milky, moonmilk, nonmilk, premilk, remilk, unmilkable, unmilky

See Also

Lact, Galact