whelk

Signification (Anglais)

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

Concepts

buccin

bulot

Synonymes

periwinkle

pimple

spot

winkle

small water snails

acne

Buccinidae

water-snail

shellfish type

Traductions

wulk

caracol de mar

kabarcık

sivilce

Wellhornschnecke

είδος σπειροειδούς κογχύλιου

φουσκαλίδα

buccino

Buccinidae

Buccinum undatum

kinkhoorn

الحلزون البحري

búzio

grano

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/wɛlk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: whelke

Hérité de ancien anglais: weoloc

Appartenant à moyen néerlandais: willoc

Appartenant à néerlandais: wulk

Hérité de ancien anglais: 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.