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More like ocean piglet - the small kinda pig looking creature, that was shipped to europe via the ocean
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Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum von ... quieck, quiiieeck, quieck....
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Dies
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It is consistent with polish too. "ลwinka morska" literally means "Sea piggy"
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Russian too.
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slovene aswell
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Hungarian too
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Tengerimalac
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Serbian too (morsko prase)
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I've have learnt that Capybaras are also sometimes called "Water Pig" in German. We are onto something big here.
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A porcupine is a "Spike Pig". The hedgehog has a name on its own called "Igel".
Funny though if you look at the name hedgehog. Basically a wild pig in a bush.
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Meanwhile in Italy: "little Indian pig"
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Same in Brazil. (Porquinho da รndia)
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Same in Portugal.
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Same in France (cochon d'Inde)
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Well,...
- The swam over to us (that's why "sea")
- They make squeeky sounds (that's why "pig")
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It's the same "translation" in Russian btw
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Just wait until you find out how meerkats got their name
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MORE CATS
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And leopards
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Don't look up what Guinea pigs were originally bred for.
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Why is the fact that they were/are food so bad? People eat rabbit too.
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Piggie Nuggies
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how's guinea pig any better?
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They're from Guinea!
(Actually it's apparently because they were a food animal that cost about a guinea...)
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There's a whole section about it on Wikipedia with a lot of speculation but the tl;dr is we have no clue why they're called that
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Merisiga in Estonian which also translates to sea pig.
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Why did I read this in Scottish accent?
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