Dutch

Determiner

welke

1. Inflected form of welk

German

Verb

welke

1. First-person singular present of welken.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of welken.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of welken.
4. Imperative singular of welken.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowing from Middle English [Term?].

Noun

welke f ‎(oblique plural welkes, nominative singular welke, nominative plural welkes)

1. whelk

Usage notes

• (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (welke) lists the meaning as turtle or tortoise

References

• welke on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub