mossel

English

Noun

mossel (plural mossels)

1. Alternative form of mossle

Anagrams

• Solems, mossle, Mosels

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch mossel, from Middle Dutch mosscele.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.səl/

Noun

mossel (plural mossels, diminutive mosseltjie)

1. mussel

Dutch

Mytilus edulis

Etymology

From Middle Dutch mossel, mussel, from Old French moule, mousle, muisle, from Latin mūsculus. Note that Middle Dutch also attests a form mosschele (with various spelling variants), which is not directly ancestral to this Modern Dutch form and which is said to be an older loanword directly from Latin: see Proto-West Germanic *muskulā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.səl/

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• Hyphenation: mos‧sel
• Rhymes: -ɔsəl
• Homophone: Mossel

Noun

mossel f (plural mosselen or mossels, diminutive mosseltje n)

1. mussel, bivalve of the family Mytilidae
2. (particularly) blue mussel, common mussel (Mytilus edulis)

   Synonym: gewone mossel

Derived terms

• gewone mossel
• mosselbank
• mosselkweker
• mosselman
• vijlmossel
• zwanenmossel

Descendants

• Afrikaans: mossel
• Negerhollands: mośel

References

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “mossel1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Further reading

• mossel on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl