whelk

Significat (Anglès)

Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.

Conceptes

bucci

buccí

Sinònims

periwinkle

pimple

spot

winkle

small water snails

acne

Buccinidae

water-snail

shellfish type

Traduccions

buccin

caracol de mar

wulk

kabarcık

sivilce

bulot

buccino

Buccinidae

Buccinum undatum

kinkhoorn

الحلزون البحري

búzio

grano

buccino

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/wɛlk/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: whelke

Heretat de anglès antic: weoloc

Cognat amb neerlandès mitjà: willoc

Cognat amb neerlandès: wulk

Heretat de anglès antic: hwelca

In summary

From Middle English whelke, a variant of welk, from Old English weoloc, wiloc, wioloc, weluc, from Proto-West Germanic *weluk (compare Middle Dutch willoc, Dutch wulk), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, revolve”) (whence vulva and volute). Unetymological spelling with wh- from the 15th century.