whelk

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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

Konzepte

Synonyme

small water snails

Buccinidae

water-snail

shellfish type

Übersetzungen

caracol de mar

kabarcık

buccino

Buccinidae

Buccinum undatum

الحلزون البحري

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/wɛlk/
Etymologie (Englisch)

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.

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