Etymology and terminology

The term milk comes from "old English meoluc (westsaxon) ,molc (anglian), from proto-Germanic *meluk milk* (source also of old norse mjolk ,old frisian melok old saxon miluk , dutch melk , old High german miluh ,GERMAN MILK ,Gothic miluks)

 In food use ,from 1961 ,the term milk  has been defined under codex Alimentarius standards as "the nomal mammary  secretion of milking animals obtained from one or more milking without either addition to it or extraction from it ,intended for consumption as liquid milk or for futher processing ,' the term dairy rela
tes to animai milk and animal milk production