English

ambersnail

From amber + snail.

A compound of amber + snail

Middle Persian 𐭠𐭭𐭡𐭫 ‘ambergris’

Arabic عَنْبَر ‘ambergris’

Old French aumbre

Middle English ambre ‘a bucket’

English amber

Proto-Germanic *snagilaz

Old English sneġel ‘a snail or slug, a gastropod’

Middle English snayl ‘a snail or slug’

English snail

Today it means

noun Any member of the genus Oxyloma of air-breathing land snails.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / ambersnail