whelk

Significado (Inglés)

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

Conceptos

caracol de mar

bigaro

Sinónimos

small water snails

Buccinidae

water-snail

shellfish type

Traducciones

kabarcık

είδος σπειροειδούς κογχύλιου

φουσκαλίδα

buccino

الحلزون البحري

Buccinum undatum

Pronunciado como (IPA)
/wɛlk/
Etimología (Inglés)

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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