Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂melǵ-

*h₂melǵ- [1]

1. to milk
2. milk

• *h₂mélǵ-e-ti (thematic root present)
  • Balto-Slavic: *melźtei
    • Lithuanian: melžti (“to milk”)
    • Slavic: *melsti (“to milk”)
  • Germanic: *melkaną (“to milk”)
  • Hellenic: [Term?]
    • Ancient Greek: ἀμέλγω (amélgō, “I milk”)
      • Greek: αρμέγω (armégo)
  • Indo-Iranian: *Hmárĵati
    • Indo-Aryan: *Hmárȷ́ati
      • Sanskrit: मर्जति (márjati, “wipes, cleans”)
    • Iranian: *Hmárĵati
      • Avestan: 𐬨𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌‎ (marəzaiti, “grazes, touches”)
      • Middle Persian: [script needed] (muštan,māl-, “rub, sweep”)
        • Persian: مالیدن‎ (mālīdan)
• *h₂molǵ-éye-ti (iterative)
  • Italic: *molgēō
    • Latin: mulgeō (“I milk”)
• Unsorted formations:
  • Albanian: [Term?]
    • Albanian: mjel (“to milk”)
  • Balto-Slavic: [Term?]
    • Latvian: malks (“sip, nip, swig”)
    • Lithuanian: malkas
  • Celtic: *mligeti
    • Old Irish: mligid
      • Middle Irish: bligim (“I milk”)
    • Old Irish: [Term?]
      • Middle Irish: melg (“milk”)
  • Celtic: *mliktu (< *ml̥ǵtu)
    • Old Irish: blicht < mlicht
      • Irish: bleacht (“milk yield”)
    • Brythonic: [Term?]
      • Welsh: blith (“milch”)
  • Germanic: *melkaz (“milky, milk-giving”)
    • ⇒ Germanic: *milkijaz
      • Old English: *melċe, *milċe (þrimilċe)
        • Middle English: milche, melche
          • English: milch
      • Old Frisian: [Term?]
        • Saterland Frisian: meelk
      • Old Saxon: [Term?]
        • Low German: melke
      • Old High German: melch
        • Middle High German: mëlch, melk
          • Alemannic German: mëlch
          • German: melk
      • Old Norse: [Term?]
        • Icelandic: milkur, mjólkur
  • Germanic: *meluks (“milk”) (with unexplained -u-)
    • → Samic: *mielkkē
    • → Slavic: *melko (“milk”) ?
  • Tocharian: [Term?]
    • Tocharian A: malke (“milk”), mālk- (“to milk”) (< *h₂melǵ-ei̯e)
    • Tocharian B: malkwer (“milk”), mālkant (“to milk”)