whelk

Значение (Английский)

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

Синонимы

small water snails

Buccinidae

water-snail

shellfish type

Переводы

caracol de mar

kabarcık

είδος σπειροειδούς κογχύλιου

φουσκαλίδα

buccino

Buccinidae

Buccinum undatum

الحلزون البحري

Произносится как (IPA)
/wɛlk/
Этимология (Английский)

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.

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