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.