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mylk

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English

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Etymology

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Respelling of milk.

Noun

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mylk (uncountable)

  1. (rare) A vegan substitute for milk.

Albanian

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Etymology

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

Noun

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mylk m (plural mylqe, definite mylku)

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

References

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  1. ^ Çabej, E. (1996) “mylk”, in 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

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  • “mylk”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1192
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “mylk”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎[2]

Scots

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Noun

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mylk (plural mylks)

  1. Shetland form of milk (“milk”)
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