mjölk

See also: mjólk, mjǫlk, and mjølk

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish miolk, from Old Norse mjǫlk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-. Cognate with Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌺𐍃 (miluks), Faroese mjólk, Icelandic mjólk, Norwegian Bokmål melk, mjølk, Norwegian Nynorsk mjølk, Danish mælk, English milk, Dutch melk, Dutch Low Saxon melk, German Milch, German Low German Melk, Yiddish מילך (milkh).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mjœlk/
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Noun

mjölk c (uncountable)

  1. milk
    dricka ett glas mjölk
    drink a glass of milk

Declension

Declension of mjölk
nominative genitive
singular indefinite mjölk mjölks
definite mjölken mjölkens
plural indefinite
definite

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