mylk

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Respelling of milk.

Noun[edit]

mylk (uncountable)

  1. (rare) A vegan substitute for milk.

Albanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ملك (mülk, property).[1][2]

Noun[edit]

mylk m (plural mylqe, definite mylku)

  1. (now historical) heritable and transferrable property, estate
    Hypernym: pronë

References[edit]

  1. ^ Çabej, E. (1996) Studime etimologjike në fushë të shqipes (in Albanian), volumes IV: Dh–J, Tirana, page 377
  2. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “mylk”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 322

Further reading[edit]

  • “mylk”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1192

Scots[edit]

Noun[edit]

mylk (plural mylks)

  1. Shetland form of milk (milk)