cockle
English
/ˈkɒkl̩/
noun
Definitions
- Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
- The shell of such a mollusk.
- (in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “warm the cockles of one's the cockles of one’s heart”).
- (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
- (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
- (mining) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
- (UK) The fire chamber of a furnace.
- (UK) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
- (UK) The dome of a heating furnace.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English cokel, cokke (cockle) inherited from Old English cocc derived from Old French coquille derived from Latin *cocchilia derived from Ancient Greek κογχύλιον (small mussel) derived from Proto-Indo-European *konkho.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*konkho
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bur English
- cocklebur English
- cockleman English
- cockler English
- cockleshell English
- cocklewoman English
- cockling English
- cockly English
- coquille English
- corn English
- corncockle English
- coxcomb English
- ear English
- earcockle English
- hot English
- hotcockles English
- shell English
- woman English
- *cocchilia Latin
- *conchilia Latin
- conchula Latin
- conchylium Latin
- kokkel Dutch, Flemish
- coquillage French
- coquille French
- coquillette French
- coquillier French
- кокиль Russian
- κογχύλιον Ancient Greek
- *konkho Proto-Indo-European
- *kukkaz Proto-Germanic
- -cocc Old English
- cicen Old English
- cocc Old English
- wuducoc Old English
- cokel Middle English
- cokke Middle English
- coquille Old French
- cochilie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- cockille Middle Dutch
- koki Mauritian Creole
- koki Seychellois Creole