Ocean Hedgehogs

@fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 months ago

qyron · edit-2 2 months ago

In portuguese, it is still the same:

Sea urchin = ouriço do mar

Hedgehog = ouriço cacheiro

Porcupine is porco-espinho; literally, thorn pig.

@Kecessa@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

French

Sea urchin: oursin (“small bear” kinda)

Porcupine: Porc-épic (epic pork!) which sounds like porc et pics (pork and spikes)

qyron · 2 months ago

French is rich with playful words.

@MacAnus@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

Hérisson kinda sounds like oursin, I wonder if it evolved from it. (The word not the animal)

@Kecessa@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 2 months ago

Oh right, the image was talking about hedgehogs and not porcupines so the hérisson (probably from hérissé?) and not the porc-épic!

@MacAnus@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

Yeah :)

@spookex@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

In Latvian it’s just

Hedgehog = Ezis

Sea urchin = Jūras ezis (Literally sea hedgehog)

Same almost for the porcupine tho, it is called dzeloņcūka, which basically translates to barbed pig.

@kameecoding@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Same in Hungarian

@SanderTuit@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Same in Dutch: zeeëgel.

@itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · edit-2 2 months ago

Same in German: Seeigel

And porcupine is Stachelschwein, literally “thorn pig”

@Haaveilija@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Same in Finnish: Merisiili (meri = sea, siili = hedgehog)