Etymology

milkvetch

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Today it means: Any member of most species of flowering plants of the genus Astragalus. Full definition →

English vetch ← Middle English fecche ← Old Northern French veche
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂melǵ-
  2. Proto-Germanic*meluks
  3. Proto-West Germanic*meluk
  4. Anglian Old Englishmilc
  5. Middle Englishmylk
  6. Englishmilk
  7. Proto-Indo-European*weyk-?
  8. Proto-Indo-European*weh₁y-?
  9. Proto-Italic*wikiā
  10. Latinvicia
  11. Old Northern Frenchveche
  12. Middle Englishfecche
  13. Englishvetch
  14. English todaymilkvetch

From milk + vetch.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.