eş: bête à cornes, limaçon, colimaçon, luma, cagouille, schneck
köken: From Occitan escargol, alteration of caragol, metathesis of cagaròl, possibly from a cross between Latin conchylium and Ancient Greek κάχλαξ (kákhlax), but see cagaròl. Doublet of cagouille.
snail · the “@” symbol, commercial at, at sign · pasta shells
çekim: çoğul chiocciole
eş: lumaca, coclea, riccio, codolo, madrevite
köken: From a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *clociola, diminutive of *clocea, from metathesis of Latin cochlea (“snail”), borrowed from Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías), cognate with κόχλος (kókhlos, “shellfish”). Compare with Sardinian còciola and Sicilian còzzula.
köken: Uncertain. Possibly from metathesis of iblis (“Iblis, Satan, devil”), due to association of snails with the devil and evil spirits. Compare Kurdish guhşeytan (literally “Devil's ear”), şeytanok (literally “little devil”) or Kryz term for “snail”, шийтӏан, from Arabic شَيْطَان (šayṭān, “devil”). Udi аьлбиз (älbiz) and Khinalug илбиз (ilbiz) are probably borrowings from Azerbaijani.
köken: Borrowed from Classical Mongolian ᠯᠤᠤ (luu, “dragon”), from Old Turkic 𐰠𐰇 (l²ü /lü/) which in turn is ultimately from Chinese 龍／龙 (lóng). Cognate with Mongolian луу (luu), Kyrgyz үлүл (ülül).
snail (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell) · curl (a lock of curly hair) · cochlea (the complex, spirally coiled, tapered cavity of the inner ear)
çekim: çoğul caracóis
köken: Uncertain. Possibly from a derivation of Vulgar Latin *cochleār, Latin cochlea (“snail”), from Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías, “spiral, snail shell”). Compare with colher (“spoon”). Alternatively, possibly of pre-Roman substrate origin. Cognate with Galician, Asturian, and Spanish caracol, Catalan caragol and Occitan caragol, from earlier cagaròl.
köken: From an unattested *σάλιγκας (*sáligkas) + suffix -άρι (-ári), the former an accent-shifted variant of late Byzantine Greek σαλίγκας (salínkas), from earlier Byzantine Greek σάλιακας (sáliakas, “snail”); see the related σάλιαγκας (sáliagkas) for more. Displaced κοχλίας (kochlías), which now refers primarily to screws, in the "snail" sense sometime in the Medieval era.
köken: First attested in the Hyang'yakjipseongbang (鄕藥集成方 / 향약집성방), 1433 as Middle Korean 月乙板伊 (*tolphan.i). Further Middle Korean examples as Hangul include ᄃᆞᆯ판이 (tolphanGi), ᄃᆞᆯ파니 (tolphani) and ᄃᆞᆯ팡이 (tolphangi). Compare dialectal forms 달파니 (dalpani, Jeonnam/Pyeongan/Hwanghae), etc. and Jeju ᄃᆞᆯ뱅이 (dawlbaeng'i).
slug (any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc) · snail (not as a zoological term) (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell, such as ones used as food) · snail, sluggard (slow person)
çekim: çoğul etanat · tamlayan etanan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *etana, further origin unknown. Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *etaną (“to eat”) and/or *etunaz (“overeater, glutton”).
köken: Unknown. Possibly a substrate word, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“soft, weak, tender”). Compare Breton melc’hwed (“snails”), Welsh malwod (“snails”), Latin mollis (“soft”), Old Armenian մեղկ (mełk, “soft, weak”). Another theory starts with the variant form melciu, which may possibly be derived from Serbian (i)mèla (“mistletoe”), with diminutive suffix -če and the meaning becoming…
snail · snailshell · spiral (form of a snailshell)
çekim: çoğul cochleae · tamlayan cochleae
köken: Etymology tree Ancient Greek κόχλος (kókhlos) Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱς (-ĭ́ās) Ancient Greek κοχλῐ́ᾱς (kokhlĭ́ās)bor. Latin cochlea Borrowed from Ancient Greek κοχλῐ́ᾱς (kokhlĭ́ās, “snail with a spiral shell”).
Uncertain. Possibly from a derivation of Vulgar Latin *cochleare, from Latin cochlea, from Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías, “spiral, snail shell”). See also cuchara. Alternatively, possibly of pre-Roman substrate origin. Cognate with Portuguese caracol, Galician caracol, Asturian caracol, and Occitan caragol, from earlier cagarol.