Melk
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See also: melk
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Melk
- A city in Austria, in the federal state of Lower Austria, known as the site of a massive baroque Benedictine monastery.
Translations
[edit]city of Austria
Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First mentioned in 831 as Medilica, said to be of Slavic origin and meaning "border" (compare Proto-Slavic *meďa (“boundary, border”)).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Melk n (proper noun, genitive Melks or (optionally with an article) Melk)
- A municipality of Lower Austria, Austria
Proper noun
[edit]die Melk f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Melk)
- A river in Lower Austria, Austria
References
[edit]- ^ Johannes Binder, Travelling on the Danube (DDSG, 1987), p. 112.
German Low German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Low German melik, from Old Saxon miluk, from Proto-West Germanic *meluk.
Cognate to English milk (which has a larger etymology section), Dutch Low Saxon melk, Dutch melk, Norwegian Bokmål melk, mjølk, German Milch.
Noun
[edit]Melk
- (in some dialects, including Low Prussian) milk
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- de:Municipalities of Lower Austria
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- de:Rivers in Lower Austria
- de:Rivers in Austria
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