Wels
Meaning
- (masculine,strong) wels catfish, Silurus glanis
- (masculine,strong) catfish, any fish of the order Siluriformes
Concepts
catfish
freshwater catfish
Wels
wels catfish
Frequency
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/vɛls/
Etymology
From Middle High German wels, from Old High German *wals, *walis, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaliʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”). Cognate with German Low German Wels (“catfish”), Dutch wels (“catfish”), Old High German walira (“whale”), German Wal (“whale”).
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