whelk

(Anglais)

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

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.

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

trąbik

búzio

grano