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2821 Etymology dictionary, p. dey (n.1).3
… of milking and making butter and cheese, dairy-maid." Dæge as "servant" is the second element in many surnames ending in -day (such as Faraday, and perhaps Doubleday …
2822 Etymology dictionary, p. demulcent (adj.).2
… "to milk," "is possible, but unproven." The obsolete verb demulce "soothe, soften, mollify" is attested from 1520s.
2823 Etymology dictionary, p. *dhe(i)-.4
… dadan "milk;" Gothic daddjan "to suckle;" Old Swedish dia "suckle;" Old High German tila "female breast;" Old Irish denaim "I suck," dinu "lamb."
2824 Etymology dictionary, p. doughty (adj.).3
… "gives milk;" Greek teukhein "to manufacture, accomplish; make ready;" Irish dual "becoming, fit;" Russian duij "strong, robust;" German Tugend "virtue").
2825 Etymology dictionary, p. egg-nog (n.).2
… eggs, milk, sugar, and spirits," c. 1775, American English, from egg (n.) + nog "strong ale." Old recipes for the drink could be made with weak alcoholic beverages like beer …
2826 Etymology dictionary, p. emulgent.2
… "to milk out, drain out, exhaust," from assimilated form of ex "out" (see ex- ) + mulgere "to milk" (from PIE root *melg- "to rub off; to milk"). Related: Emulgence .
2827 Etymology dictionary, p. emulsion (n.).2
… "to milk out," from assimilated form of ex "out" (see ex- ) + mulgere "to milk" (from PIE root *melg- "to rub off; to milk"). The fat (butter) in milk is the classic example of an emulsion …
2828 Etymology dictionary, p. emulsify (v.).2
"make or form into an emulsion," 1853, from Latin emuls-, past-participle stem of emulgere "to milk out" (from assimilated form of ex "out;" see ex-; + mulgere "to milk," from PIE root *melg- "to rub off; to milk") + -fy. Related: emulsified .
2829 Etymology dictionary, p. evaporate (v.).2
… . Evaporated milk (1870) is processed milk with some of the liquid removed by evaporation; it differs from condensed milk in being unsweetened.
2830 Etymology dictionary, p. fat (adj.).3
… water, milk, fat, etc." (source also of Greek piduein "to gush forth"), from root *peie- "to be fat, swell" (source also of Sanskrit payate "swells, exuberates," pituh "juice …
2831 Etymology dictionary, p. feta (n.).2
type of white Greek cheese made from goat's or ewe's milk, 1956, from Modern Greek (tyri) pheta, from tyri "cheese" + pheta, from Italian fetta "a slice," from Latin offa "a morsel, piece."
2832 Etymology dictionary, p. flower (n.).3
… of milk "cream" (early 14c.); especially "wheat meal after bran and other coarse elements have been removed, the best part of wheat" (mid-13c.). Modern spelling and full …
2833 Etymology dictionary, p. frumentaceous (adj.).2
… with milk and sweetened" (late 14c.), from Old French frumentee, Medieval Latin frumenticium .
2834 Etymology dictionary, p. galactic (adj.).2
1839, "of the Milky Way, of the bright band of stars around the night sky," from Late Latin galacticus, from galaxias (see galaxy ). In modern scientific sense "pertaining to (our) galaxy," from 1849. From 1844 as "of or pertaining to milk."
2835 Etymology dictionary, p. galacto-.2
before vowels galact-, word-forming element meaning "milk, milky," from Greek gala (stem galakt-; see galaxy ).
2836 Etymology dictionary, p. *g(a)lag-.2
also *g(a)lakt-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "milk."
2837 Etymology dictionary, p. *g(a)lag-.4
… lactis ) "milk;" Greek gala (genitive galaktos ), "milk;" Armenian dialectal kaxc' "milk." The initial "g" probably was lost in Latin by dissimilation. This and the separate …
2838 Etymology dictionary, p. galaxy (n.).2
… galaktos ) "milk" (from PIE root *g(a)lag- "milk").
2839 Etymology dictionary, p. geld (v.).2
… no milk, dry," which yielded Middle English geld "barren" (of women and female animals); also Old High German galt "barren," said of a cow. Related: Gelded; gelding .
2840 Etymology dictionary, p. goat (n.).3
… the milk from goats at night, but also old slang for "a prostitute," also "the female pudendum"). To get (someone's) goat is by 1908, American English, the source of many …