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Found the "milk" root:
Laurent Sagart:
The Roots of Old Chinese
p. 129
"
One probable case of a word in GSR 766 which did not have an initial
cluster is lao4 MC lak "kumiss" ..., from (late) OC *(A)rak, which
probably writes the wanderwort arak "alcoholic beverage"
"
(A) is syllable type.
Torsten