whelkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• welk, whilk
• (廃れた用法) wilk

発音

• IPA^(key): /wɛlk/
  • (without the wine–whine merger) IPA^(key): /hwɛlk/
  • 韻: -ɛlk

語源 1

From Middle English whelke, a variant of welk, from 古期英語 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 かつ volute). Unetymological spelling with wh- from the 15th century.^[1]

名詞

whelk (複数形 whelks)

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

同意語

• scungilli

派生語

• Asian rapa whelk
• dog whelk
• veined rapa whelk

語源 2

From Middle English whelke, from 古期英語 hwelca (“pustule, swelling”).

名詞

whelk (複数形 whelks)

1. (archaic) Pimple
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene v]:

     his face is all bubukles , and whelks , and knobs

2. A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.

派生語

• chin whelk

参照

Further reading

• whelk on Wikipedia.
• Buccinidae on Wikispecies.
• Buccinidae on Wikimedia Commons.