whelk

(Anglès)

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

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.

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

trąbik

búzio

grano

buccino