whelk

Senso (Inglese)

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

Concetti

buccino

sinonimi

periwinkle

pimple

spot

winkle

small water snails

acne

Buccinidae

water-snail

shellfish type

Traduzioni

buccin

caracol de mar

wulk

kabarcık

sivilce

είδος σπειροειδούς κογχύλιου

φουσκαλίδα

bulot

Buccinidae

Buccinum undatum

الحلزون البحري

puistje

búzio

grano

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/wɛlk/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: whelke

Ereditato da inglese antico: weoloc

Affine olandese medio: willoc

Affine olandese: wulk

Ereditato da inglese antico: 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.