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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2006-02-21 10:29, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > And BTW: German Milch "milk", molken "to milk" < *mulg^- as far
as I
> > can see.
>
> The normal Germanic strong verb is *melk-a/i- (OHG melkan, Mod.Ger.
> melken, OFris. melka, OE melcan). Of course the expected nil grade
> *ml.g^- > Gmc. *mulk- is also attested in derivatives such as
*mulkana-
> 'curdled milk, whey' (OE molcen, Ger. Molken), formally identical
with
> the past participle of the verb in question (cf. OE melcan, pret.
mealc,
> mulcon, p.p. (ge-)molcen). Secondary weak verbs from the same root
also
> occur, e.g. OE meolcian, ON mjolka (of course denominative, from
*melka-
> 'milk') and ON molca 'to milk', mylkja 'suck' (with the nil grade).
>
> Piotr
>
Why to exclude a PIE *melk(') with k(') for the Germanic words (see
Slavic *melk-o) ?
Thanks for the feedback,
marius
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