whelk

(Angielski)

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

Wymawiane jako (IPA)
/wɛlk/
Etymologia (Angielski)

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.

trąbik

small water snails

Buccinidae

water-snail

shellfish type

caracol de mar

kabarcık

είδος σπειροειδούς κογχύλιου

φουσκαλίδα

buccino

Buccinidae

الحلزون البحري

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