ble

Betekenis (Engels)

wick

Sinonieme

floc

Vertalings

mèche

mecha

🔒

stoppino

mecha

Docht

pavio

wick

ciocca

🔒

ricciolo

lucignolo

sghemba

fīlum

mergulus

lok

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

[ˈblɛ]

Etimologie (Engels)

Possibly from a reconstructed *bledino-, a derivation of Proto-Celtic *bledyos (“wolf”). Among the many common names in the languages of Europe for Verbascum thapsus (the common mullein), whose long leaves were historically used to make wicks, are the equivalents of “wolf's tail” or “fox's tail”. (For example, Welsh cynffon llwynog (“fox's tail”), dialectal Catalan cua de guilla (“fox's tail”).)