Wibilaz

Conotrachelus

is a genus of true weevils in the family Curculionidae.

Weevil

From Middle English wevel, from Old English wifel (“beetle”), from Proto-Germanic *wibilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰel, from *webʰ-, *h₁webʰ- (“to wave, to weave”), said to be from the woven appearance of a weevil’s larval case;^[1] see also wave and weave.

Compare Old Saxon goldwivel, wivel (“glowworm”); Middle Low German wevel; Old High German wibil, wipil (modern German Wiebel(“beetle; chafer”)); Lithuanian vãbalas (“beetle; weevil”); Old Norse vifill, as in tordyfill (“dung beetle, scarab”) (whence Dutch tortwevel; Icelandic tordýfill, Norwegian tordivel, Old English tordwifel, Swedish tordyfvel); dialectal Russian ве́блица (véblica, “intestinal worm”).

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