Muschel
German (Berlin)
/ˈmʊʃəl/
noun
Definitions
- a bivalve marine mollusk with a shell, or the shell itself
- (cooking) a mussel
- (colloquial) a snailshell
Etymology
Inherited from Old High German muscula derived from Latin mūsculus (muscle, little mouse, a muscle, mussel muscle, mussel).
Origin
Latin
mūsculus
Gloss
muscle, little mouse, a muscle, mussel muscle, mussel
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- muscule English
- mussel English
- *musclus Latin
- *mūsclus Latin
- muscellus Latin
- muscularis Latin
- musculosus Latin
- musculus Latin
- mūs Latin
- mūsculus Latin
- Elefant German
- Elefantenrüsselmuschel German
- Muskel German
- Muskulatur German
- Rüssel German
- Sprechmuschel German
- sprechen German
- moûle French
- musculaire French
- musculature French
- músculo Spanish, Castilian
- μῦς Ancient Greek
- muskel Norwegian Bokmål
- músculo Portuguese
- muskuł Polish
- muszla Polish
- muskel Norwegian Nynorsk
- muscelle Old English
- muscle Catalan, Valencian
- musclo Catalan, Valencian
- múscul Catalan, Valencian
- músculo Galician
- muscula Old High German
- m. Translingual
- muscle Norman
- muscle Middle French
- muscle Occitan
- mišica Slovene
- músculu Asturian
- mušla Lower Sorbian
- mussel Old Danish