whelk

Significado (Inglês)

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

Conceitos

búzio

Sinônimos

periwinkle

pimple

spot

winkle

small water snails

acne

Buccinidae

water-snail

shellfish type

Traduções

buccin

caracol de mar

wulk

kabarcık

sivilce

είδος σπειροειδούς κογχύλιου

φουσκαλίδα

bulot

buccino

Buccinidae

الحلزون البحري

kinkhoorn

puistje

grano

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/wɛlk/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: whelke

Herdado de inglês arcaico: weoloc

Cognato com holandês médio: willoc

Cognato com holandês: wulk

Herdado de inglês arcaico: 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.