The story
- Old English · inherited frommeolchwīt“milk-white”
- Middle English · inherited frommilke white
- English todaymilk-white
Inherited from Middle English milke white, mylk-whyte, mylkquyte, mylk-whit, milc-whit, from Old English meolchwīt (“milk-white”), equivalent to milk + white. Compare Dutch melkwit (“milk-white”), German milchweiß (“milk-white”), Swedish mjölkvit (“milk-white”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.