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発音

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

語源 1

From 中期英語 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 and volute). Unetymological spelling with wh- from the 15th century.

名詞

whelk (plural 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.

   Synonym: (obsolete) sea cornet

同意語

• scungilli

派生語

• Asian rapa whelk
• dog whelk
• knobbed whelk
• veined rapa whelk
• whelker
• whelk stall
• whelky

語源 2

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

名詞

whelk (plural whelks)

1. (archaic) Pimple.
   • 1599 (date written), 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, [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
• whelky

参照

Further reading

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