muxir
Meaning
- to milk (express milk from an animal)
- to moo
Pronounced as (IPA)
/muˈʃiɾ/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese mõgir, mugir (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin mulgēre, present active infinitive of mulgeō (“I milk”) (possibly through a Vulgar Latin *mungere; compare also Catalan munyir, Italian mungere), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-. Cognate with English milk and Portuguese mungir.
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