köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vẽeira, from Early Medieval Latin veneria, from Latin Venus. Doublet of venera. Cognate with Galician vieira and Spanish venera.
köken: From Proto-Italic *pekten, from Proto-Indo-European *pḱtḗn, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“pluck”) (whence pecto). Cognate with Ancient Greek κτείς (kteís).
aile: *pectinī̆culum, pectinō, pectunculus
Naidēs effusīs aliae sine pectinis ūsū,
Nec non Threïcius longa cum veste sacerdos obloquitur numeris septem discrimina vocum,
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese *vẽeyra, from Medieval Latin conchula veneria (“shell of Venus”), from Classical Latin Venus. Cognate with Portuguese vieira and Spanish venera.
köken: Borrowed from Latin pecten (“scallop; comb; pubic hair”). Compare French pétoncle.
aile: pektenaĵo
Etimoloji
pilgrim + -s- + mussla. The name originated with the practice of pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela using it as their symbol. Compare French coquille Saint-Jacques, German Jakobsmuschel.