Note 205 — Chapter XII
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The Greek term γάλα is a form of the Arabic. In the genitive, it is γάλακτος (galactos) hence the Latin lac; by transposition the verb ἀμέλγω, to milk, is held to be formed, whence the Latin mulgere, we, from the verb, have re-formed a substantive, mulg, mulk, milk, which is spread over the north of Europe as the derivatives of lac are over the south; in the Polish and Russian it is mleko.