milk
要点牛乳、ミルク
意味
- (雌の哺乳(ほにゅう)動物が分泌する)乳,(特に食料としての)牛乳,ミルク
- (植物の)乳汁,乳剤,乳液
- 〈牛など〉の乳をしぼる
- 〈情報など〉を引き出す;(…を)〈人〉からしぼり取る《+名+of+名》
- (毒を)〈蛇〉から抜き取る《+名+of+名》
- 〈牛などが〉乳を出す
例文
Mary asked if the cat had drunk all of the milk.
猫はミルクを全部飲んでしまったの、とメアリーはたずねました。
There was only a little milk left in the bottle.
瓶には、少しだけ牛乳が残っていた。
Corn flakes and milk certainly go well together.
確かに牛乳とコーンフレークの相性は抜群だ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), from Proto-West Germanic *meluk (“milk”), from Proto-Germanic *meluks (“milk”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“milk, to milk”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian molke (“milk”), Dutch melk (“milk”), Dutch Low Saxon melk (“milk”), German Milch (“milk”), German Low German Melk (“milk”), Yiddish מילך (milkh, “milk”), Danish mælk (“milk”), Faroese and Icelandic mjólk (“milk”), Norn *mjølk (“milk”), Norwegian Bokmål melk, mjølk (“milk”), Norwegian Nynorsk mjølk (“milk”), Swedish mjölk (“milk”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌺𐍃 (miluks, “milk”), Greek αμέλγω (amélgo, “to milk”), Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Latvian malks, Lithua…