different between mich vs milch

English

Verb

mich (third-person singular simple present miches, present participle miching, simple past and past participle miched)

1. Alternative form of mitch

Anagrams

• chim

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German mich (“me”). Cognate with German mich.

Pronoun

mich

1. (Sette Comuni) accusative of ich: me

See also

References

• “mich” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

German

Etymology

From Middle High German mich, from Old High German mih, from Proto-Germanic *mek, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?ç/

Pronoun

mich

1. accusative of ich: me

Further reading

• “mich” in Duden online

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German mich, from Old High German mih, from Proto-Germanic *mek, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?ç/

Pronoun

mich

1. stressed and unstressed accusative of ich: me.

Inflection

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• (most dialects) IPA^(key): /m?x/
• (Maastricht) IPA^(key): /mix/
• (Cleverlandic dialects) IPA^(key): /m?k/

Pronoun

mich

1. accusative of ich: me

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German mih, from Proto-Germanic *mek, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).

Pronoun

mich

1. me: accusative singular of ich

Descendants

• Alemannic German: mich, mi
• Central Franconian: mich
• Cimbrian: mich
• East Central German: mihch, mich, miech
• German: mich
• Hunsrik: mich
• Luxembourgish: mech
• Pennsylvania German: mich
• Yiddish: ???? (mikh)

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German mich.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?ç/

Pronoun

mich

1. me

Declension

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?ix/

Noun

mich f

1. genitive plural of micha

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *mugj?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?x/

Noun

mich c (plural miggen, diminutive michje)

1. fly
2. mosquito
3. shorty; short person

Derived terms

• miggesiftsje

Further reading

• “mich”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

From Middle English milche, melche, from Old English *mel?e, *mil?e (attested in þrimil?e, þrimel?es m?naþ), from Proto-Germanic *milkijaz, from Proto-Germanic *melkaz (“milky, milk-giving”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?mel?- (“to wipe, wipe off, milk”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian meelk (“milch”), Low German melke (“milch”), German melk (“milk-giving, milch”), Alemannic German mëlch (“milch, milkable”), Icelandic milkur, mjólkur (“milk-giving”). More at milk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?lt??/
• Rhymes: -?lt?

Adjective

milch (not comparable)

1. (dated, of a cow or other livestock) Used to produce milk; dairy.
2. (dated, of a mammal) Currently producing milk for its offspring.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, "Venus and Adonis"

     She wildly breaketh from their strict embrace / Like a milch doe, whose swelling dugs do ache / Hasting to feed her fawn, hid in some break.

   • you must house your Milch-cows

3. (obsolete) Tender; pitiful; weeping.

Usage notes

• Used in terms such as milch cow or milch goat.

Derived terms

• milch-maid
• milch-wench
• milch-woman
• milchy

Translations

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• meljch, mélch, mélläch

Etymology

From Old High German miluh, from Proto-Germanic *meluks. Cognate with German Milch, Dutch melk, English milk, Swedish mjölk, Gothic ???????????????????????? (miluks).

Noun

milch f

1. (Issime, Carcoforo) milk

References

• “milch” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Bavarian

Alternative forms

• milach (Timau)
• milich (Sauris)

Etymology

From Old High German miluh, from Proto-Germanic *meluks. Cognate with German Milch, Dutch melk, English milk, Swedish mjölk, Gothic ???????????????????????? (miluks).

Noun

milch f

1. (Sappada) milk

References

• “milch” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Old High German miluh, from Proto-Germanic *meluks. Cognate with German Milch, Dutch melk, English milk, Swedish mjölk, Gothic ???????????????????????? (miluks).

Noun

milch f

1. (Luserna, Sette Comuni) milk

References

• “milch” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German milch, milich, from Old High German miluh, from Proto-West Germanic *meluk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks (“milk”). Cognate with German Milch, English milk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /milx/

Noun

milch f

1. milk

References

• Anthony R. Rowley, Liacht as de sproch: Grammatica della lingua mòchena Deutsch-Fersentalerisch, TEMI, 2003.