mossel

mossel (plural mossels)

1. Alternative form of mossle.

• Solems, mossle, Mosels

From Dutch mossel, from Middle Dutch mosscele.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.səl/

mossel (plural mossels, diminutive mosseltjie)

1. mussel

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.səl/

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

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

• Afrikaans: mossel
• Negerhollands: mośel

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

• mossel on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl